Nvidia’s anti-crypto protection will have held up for a while. NiceHash announces that the latest version of its QuickMiner application (Excavator) is able to override this, freeing up 100% of the performance of the GeForce RTX 30 series.
The announcement is significant because it ends Nvidia’s Lite Hash Rate (LHR) editions. The NiceHash team reports that their cryptocurrency mining application QuickMiner (Excavator) is able to unlock 100% GeForce RTX 30 Series Lite Hash Rate (LHR) performance. There are only two exceptions, the GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3080 12 GB.
GeForce RTX 30 series LHR
Nvidia’s first LHR attempt ended in a blunder that ended the protection. Indeed the first LHR algorithm was unlocked by Nvidia itself through the publication of graphics drivers disabling protection. The LHR algorithm was then updated with the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060. It is now present on all GeForce RTX 30 series cards except the RTX 3090.
The developers of NiceHash had already made a major breakthrough in August 2021 with a mechanism capable of unleashing 70% mining performance from these graphics cards. This unlock is now full and has been independently verified by the team Benchmark.pl. For example the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti reaches 117 MH / s against 85 – 88 MH / s previously.
NiceHash indicates
We are very happy to announce that NiceHash QuickMiner (Excavator) is the first mining software to FULLY (100%) UNLOCK LHR cards!