Something to look forward to: Following rumors about Nvidia relaunching the RTX 30 series with new GPUs featuring a cryptomining limiter, a new study claims that AIB partners have been informed that these chips will start shipping in mid-May. The new GPUs are referred to as LHR (Light Hash Charge per unit) and should come up with Resizable BAR support enabled by default.

Nvidia had previously stated that they wouldn't limit mining performance of GPU already sold, but that doesn't hateful they wouldn't do it to GPUs not however in the market. It's non in Nvidia's best involvement to reduce any revenue originated by selling cards for mining, which is quite high. However, with the CMP HX series already out, the company can repossess the RTX series for their original purpose, a graphics cards serial for PC gamers.

Like the RTX 3060, the rest of the GeForce RTX 30 GPU family unit is expected to receive a similar treatment, as Nvidia reportedly plans to update the whole lineup with new graphics processors featuring anti-mining capabilities -- the kind that can't exist bypassed.

The LHR GPUs will be named differently, ending with a '2' instead of '0' (GA102-200 is now GA102-202). The PCI Device ID will also differ, but operation-wise, both GAxx0 and GAxx2 chips will be the same.

The new GPUs are expected to starting time shipping in the center of May, meaning that customers should start receiving them about a calendar month later. This may issue in improved GPU stock levels for PC builders and gamers if miners tin't figure out a practical way to override the mining limiter, leading them to the CMP HX series.

The report farther indicates that the RTX 3090 may non come with the cryptomining limiter because it already has a high ROI. All the same, it'll all the same be revised with a new GPU code-name (GA102-302), which may have something to exercise with Nvidia's push to enable Resizable BAR back up by default without the need for customers to update their menu's vBIOS.

We benchmarked initial support for Resizable BAR on GeForce RTX GPUs and it'south nonetheless a work in progress, specially if the drivers can't tell if the game will receive a boost or a subtract in performance once it's enabled.