Galax RTX 3080, 3070 GPUs will limit hash rates to slow down crypto mining
Hash rate limiters from Galax may sway crypto miners away, making more cards available for gamers.
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The latest move in the battle to make thebest graphics cardsless alluring to crypto miners is lowering hash rates. We’ve seen companies likeNVIDIA try thisin the past with little success, but Galax is the next company to try it. Galax will release variants of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and 3080 with anti-mining limiters.
Originally reported byVideoCardz, the Galax LHR (Lower Hash Rate) series GPUs will have a significantly lower hash rate than normal RTX 3070 and 3080 GPUs. These hash rate limiters should make the graphics cards less attractive to crypto miners but should still be able to power thebest PC games. Details about the new GPUs appear on aChinese website.
The LHR variants of the RTX 3070 and 3080 appear to have roughly half the hash rate of the standard models. The RTX 3070 has an Ethereum computing power of about 25MH/s, while the RTX 3080 hits about 43MH/s. For context, the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT’s hash rate is around 40MH/s. The RX 6700 XT is a more budget-friendly option for mining, but it doesn’t stack up to thebest mining GPUs.
If Galax can successfully make its GPUs poor options for crypto mining, it could result in graphics cards being more available to gamers. It’s almost impossible to purchase a high-end GPU at the moment, and that’s in large part due to crypto mining.
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