Foreign netizens @bravo_char found that most of the default BIOS settings of the RTX 3080 Ti LHR hide the power consumption limit. Once the memory load is found to be too high, it will be considered mining and starting this limit. Theoretically, there is no way for conventional methods to bypass it, but it is worth a try. When EVGA discovered this problem, it thought it was a bug and released a firmware patch.
After updating the firmware, the EVGA RTX 3080 Ti's Ethereum hash rate increased from 66MH/s to 80MH/s, an increase of 21%. Of course, other brands of RTX 3080 Ti officially do not have this treatment, but there are precedents for cross-brand brushing firmware.
However, some netizens pointed out that EVGA's move may be to stimulate graphics card sales, because in the environment of high graphics card prices, sales are not optimistic.
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