With the introduction of LHR, NVIDIA aimed to clearly differentiate between graphics cards designed for gamers and those for miners. They implemented an algorithm in the new RTX card models to make them less effective at mining cryptocurrencies , meaning that if users wanted to mine with them, they would have to wait a very long time to see any profit: at least two years, not counting the cost of electricity and other components. However, a new RTX LHR Mining Unlocker that surfaced a few days ago claimed to restore the full mining power of these cards, but to the delight of users, it turned out to be malware.
The “Nvidia RTX LHR v2 Unlocker” plugin was advertised as a BIOS tweak for the card. It was supposedly a firmware modification that removes the performance limit for miners.
A malware taking advantage of miners' greed with Nvidia RTX LHR Mining Unlocker
Actually, this Nvidia RTX LHR Mining Unlocker is nothing but malware. The Red Panda Mining Live! He tried it and reported that many details were suspicious, such as the program being marked as created in 2009, and not in 2022.
The Nvidia RTX LHR Mining Unlocker, which turned out to be malware, has already been removed from GitHub, and everyone has been urged not to download it. This may have been a way to target cryptocurrency miners , either because they hoard graphics cards and artificially inflate prices, or because of the electricity consumption of various proof-of-work blockchains.
Therefore, all NVIDIA RTX cards that use the LHR algorithm are still not highly recommended for mining. While they can technically mine, their capacity is so limited that recouping the cost of the card just by mining Ethereum can take more than two years, even for the most efficient or cheapest cards.
Source: TechRadar
