That's it, they did it.
The latest GeForce RTX 30s are still hard to find in the market, and when they are, the prices go through the roof. The problem is that these cards are used by many cryptocurrency miners around the world, preventing gamers from accessing them, even as the global shortage of electronic components continues and impacts production (like the PS5).
In order to limit the demand of miners, NVIDIA had implemented a software limitation to limit the hashrate of ETH with its last generation of graphics card, but it was quickly bypassed. That's why NVIDIA announced at the end of April that the next RTX 30 will include a new hardware throttling system, which will not be possible to bypass. NVIDIA has just made these new graphics cards official!
The whole range concerned
The GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3060 sold from the end of May will integrate the LHR, for Lite Hash Rate. This device would, according to the manufacturer, halve the speed of hashrate, which should make these graphics cards much less interesting for miners. In order to differentiate these new GPUs from the old ones, the LHR cards will be labeled as such, with the identifier "Lite Hash Rate" specified on the packaging.
Apart from this famous Lite Hash Rate, these graphics cards do not change strictly anything to the RTX 30 that we already knew. As for cryptocurrency miners, they should soon have the right to a dedicated graphics card, the CMP, so as to reserve the RTX range for gamers.
If you wish to mine, one of the best GPU you can use at low price are the GTX 1080 and 1080 TI.
The GTX 1080 and 1080ti can great peaks if they are well configured, respectively 40 and 50Mh/s.
