NVIDIA Silently Relaunching RTX 30-series with “Lite Hash

Remember that story relating to NVIDIA relaunching a brand new RTX 3060 SKU that really does restrict the hash price for Ethereum mining workloads? Well, not solely has it been cemented, however it additionally has been expanded. Reports are coming in that every one however affirm that NVIDIA is on its manner to offer its companions with up to date silicon that ought to put mining efficiency of their RTX 30-series playing cards right into a much less palatable price-performance territory for would-be miners. That, in flip, ought to carry them nearer to NVIDIA’s CMP (Crypto Mining Processor) playing cards as an alternative – and as needed by each the corporate and shoppers.

According to the sources, the brand new graphics playing cards will probably be indistinguishable from these which might be nonetheless in transit or in inventory (all two of them worldwide, after all). NVIDIA is internally describing the revised silicon as “Lite Hash Rate”, and that’s the message they convey with AIBs. Apparently, the brand new “Lite Hash Rate” graphics playing cards will vary all through everything of NVIDIA’s already-released RTX 30-series portfolio, from the ill-fated RTX 3060 as much as the RTX 3080 Ti – the one absent graphics card is the RTX 3090, apparently, which might imply that NVIDIA is assured sufficient on that graphics card’s value being too excessive to be engaging to miners – particularly when you think about how way more they’re going for above the MSRP that was half-heartedly slapped on it. The new chips carry an replace to their SKU identification – the GA102-200 chip that powers the RTX 3080 is being revised to GA102-202, as will all different chips made “lite” on this manner. Expect the brand new playing cards to begin hitting retail come June.