Monday, March 22nd 2021
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Anti-Mining Feature Bypassed by HDMI Dummy Plug
When NVIDIA introduced its GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card, the company also introduced a new feature to go along with it. As the card is priced well, it is positioning itself as a very good value offer for mining. Given that NVIDIA has now separate products for mining, it naturally would like to limit the number of gaming cards sold to miners. To achieve that, the company introduced an anti-mining algorithm that is essentially a handshake between the driver, RTX 3060 silicon, and the GPU VBIOS. This handshake checks those three components to detect if mining is going on, so it can limit the performance of the card.
However, even such a thing can be bypassed. Usually, miners put their GPUs in rigs where most of the GPUs don't use their video outputs. And the GPU can detect if it is connected to the monitor or not, triggering the anti-mining algorithm. A user from Quasar Zone forums has managed to bypass the restriction by simply installing a dummy HDMI plug. By using the dummy plug, the card thinks that it is connected to a monitor and thus runs normally. Using this workaround, the user was able to set-up a four-way GeForce RTX 3060 mining rig with 48 MH/s hashing power per GPU, for the total 192 MH/s hash rate. You can buy HDMI dummy plugs for as low as $5.99 on Amazon or at any other store.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
However, even such a thing can be bypassed. Usually, miners put their GPUs in rigs where most of the GPUs don't use their video outputs. And the GPU can detect if it is connected to the monitor or not, triggering the anti-mining algorithm. A user from Quasar Zone forums has managed to bypass the restriction by simply installing a dummy HDMI plug. By using the dummy plug, the card thinks that it is connected to a monitor and thus runs normally. Using this workaround, the user was able to set-up a four-way GeForce RTX 3060 mining rig with 48 MH/s hashing power per GPU, for the total 192 MH/s hash rate. You can buy HDMI dummy plugs for as low as $5.99 on Amazon or at any other store.
76 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Anti-Mining Feature Bypassed by HDMI Dummy Plug
Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 Anti-Mining Feature isnt Bypassed by HDMI Dummy Plug?
or Nvidias accident claim was just a lie?
I'm just saying AMD is prioritising console, 80% of AMD's capacitygo into making console chips while the remaining 20% go into making CPU and GPU (3-4% capacity go into Big Navi), that is just sad.
If shortages really were a thing, miners couldn't have filled warehouses full of video cards and laptops and everything else that has a GPU in it in the first place.
Either get the story straight from the beginning or add things that you missed to the original story. It's not hard.
I mean, that trick also doesn't work if the cards are connected using a riser. Should I expect, a week from now, another article about "Nvidia's anti-mining protection defeated by not using a riser card"?
As much I'm being annoyed that can't get gpu at normal price the dollars from the miners are same shade of green. I don't see why a company would cut themselves out of a whole market.
The problem is that they don't produce enough simple as that.
Crypto price is gonna crash again like the last time simple as that as it has no real value, less then vbucks. The bubble will burst and there will be a lot of crying.
Optimally the nvidia and amd increase the production to meet the demand and at the se time crypto no longer profitable there will be some bargain prices.
And the exposure of that.
Mining locked my arse , one of 10000 coins and they fecked it up so bad they will be the gamer's friends laugh of the year.
This is all moot, even if you tick all the boxes, it only works with 3060, you are limited to as many cards as you can directly insert into a motherboard (i.e. 3) and even then, the driver is reported to only work with cards from some manufacturers. This can be seen as a defeat of the protections (which it technically is), but it yields some configurations no serious miner would have a use for.
Or many others
No limits. ..,..,..... Ever.
Virtcoin is not a bad alternative coin to mine even.
So yeah moot since day one.
The shortages of PCBs and components for the cards was reported months ago by Jensen Huang but anyway it doesn't matter. A shortage is still a shortage and there will be shortages afer the miners leave the GPU market just like before because gamers will be buying a lot of the 3080s because they can now afford them.
But I do feel your reaction was a bit too strong.
If you really cared about fact-checking, ethics and high-quality journalism your only objection should have been against this part;
"Given that NVIDIA has now separate products for mining, it naturally would like to limit the number of gaming cards sold to miners."
which is not true at all. Nvidia doesn't want to limit the number of gaming cards sold to miners at all. All it wants is simply just "making more profit".