Nvidia’s latest and upgraded LHR v3 model has been 90% unlocked, according to the latest update from Nicehash. Until today, miners were only limited to 50% of the mining potential of these cards. The RTX 3050 and the RTX 3080 12GB, a couple of fairly recent launches, are the only GPUs to feature the LHR v3 update of Nvidia’s anti-mining technology. All GPUs featuring LHR v1 and v2 have been completely unlocked. However, LHR v3 is significantly tough to crack, as Nicehash had mentioned earlier.
The company came up with the initial version of LHR back in Spring 2021 when they launched the RTX 3060. Sequentially, LHR v1 was implemented into cards like the RTX 3070, the RTX 3080, and the RTX 3060 Ti cards.
As an update to the vulnerabilities, the first version of LHR faced, the company updated its formula and launched LHR v2 with the RTX 3070 Ti and the RTX 3080 Ti cards in the summer of 2021. LHR v2 was significantly harder to crack as compared to LHR v1. It took Nicehash coders almost a year to fully unlock the anti-mining algorithm.
Following up, Nvidia introduced LHR v3 with its RTX 3050 and RTX 3080 12GB cards, which are some of the final RTX 30 series cards. LHR v3 will thus be the highest-end anti-mining tech found on any RTX 30 series card.
With the latest updates, the RTX 3050 with LHR v2 gives around 30 MH/s of mining hashrate. The RTX 3080 12GB crossed the 100 MH/s mark, and it is currently mining at 104 MH/s.
Nicehash now claims that every RTX 30 series LHR (Lite Hash Rate or Low Hash Rate) card is either fully or 90% unlocked. Following the progress Nicehash has been making with unlocking LHR cards, LHR v3 might soon get fully unlocked.