Rumor: Nvidia will deliver new RTX GPUs with mining limitation in mid-May

According to a rumor, Nvidia will start supplying new RTX GPUs to video card makers in mid-May. The GAxx2 variants are equipped with a hashrate limiter, but are otherwise identical to existing GPUs. The video cards would appear in June.

Partners of Nvidia have received the information about the GAxx2 chips, VideoCardz writes. It concerns manufacturers that make video cards and purchase RTX GPUs from Nvidia. There have been rumors for some time about the arrival of variants of existing GPUs, with the addition of a hashrate limiter. Nvidia would describe those GPUs to partners as Light Hash Rate variants.

It is expected that video cards with the new GPUs would be for sale from June. Customers would see no difference with current video cards such as the RTX 3090, 3080, 3070 and 3060. The new GPU variants end up in the same video cards and there would only be a difference by looking at the inscription on the GPU. The cooler and heatsink must be removed for this. Software may also be able to read that it is a GPU variant.

In addition to a hashrate limiter, the new variants will probably also receive support for Resizable BAR, without the need for an update of the video bios. The presence of a hashrate limiter has no consequences for gamers. The limitation should make the video cards less attractive for crypto mining.

With the RTX 3060, Nvidia added a specific block that caused the hashrate when mining Ethereum to halve. However, that block disappeared after Nvidia released a beta driver for developers, where that limitation was not activated. According to Nvidia, that happened by accident.

GPUs in Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 Series

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GPUs in Nvidia RTX 30 series, according to VideoCardz.