Happy players and angry miners

It's no secret that the lack of graphics cards and the resulting very high prices are due to the high demand for cryptocurrency mining. It went so far that for a while it was almost impossible to get a decent enough graphics card for gaming. The players were therefore naturally unhappy and angry, and took their anger out on the producers. Of course, they had to react somehow, but it took them quite some time to find a way. They found a solution, for example, in the Lite Hash Rate (LHR) technology, which preserves the gaming properties of the graphics, but inhibits its "cryptocurrency abilities".

The latest such example is Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card, which Chinese Ethererum (ETH) miners say performs very poorly at doing this. Thus, when the LHR algorithm detects mining, the mining speed (mining hash rate) drops from 20 to only 12.5 MH**z within a few seconds, which makes it very unattractive for mining, but players are very happy with it, because they have a solid card with 8 GB of VRAM available for around €220.

Source: Neowin

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