Nvidia Has Removed the LHR GPU Hashrate Lock in their Latest Official Driver Version 522.25
It seems that the latest video driver from Nvidia version 522.25 just released with support for the new Nvidia RTX 4090 GPUs also come with completely removed LHR hashrate limiter! So, there should be no more need to use a software miner that unlocks the GPU’s full performance for mining (if you have a LHR video card that is). One would argue that after Ethereum (ETH) switch from PoW (mining) to PoS (staking) and not being mineable anymore is a reason enough for this move from Nvidia to remove the hashrate limiter on their RTX 30xx series of GPUs.
On the image above you can see a quick test of the latest video drivers on LHR locked Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti GPUs using PhoenixMiner 5.9 (no support for any kind of LHR unlock) and video cards are doing 80 MH/s mining ETC. Other Nvidia LHR locked GPUs should also be capable of their full hahsrate without the need of special unlocking miner, though that still needs to be tested and confirmed although there are reports that other GPUs are also fully unlocked.
It is not the mining part; it is the sales part that is the reason for the LHR removal. The current situation with no profit for most miners means that there is no need to have software that implies further hashrate limiter like the LHR mode in place as it will further…
