[sixothree]

They had to leak it at least once. But seriously, I thought they were clear about this being a driver implementation and not a hardware restriction.

[tyingq]

Yeah, they were not clear :)

“It’s not just a driver thing,” said Bryan Del Rizzo, Nvidia’s head of communications, last month. “There is a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS (firmware) that prevents removal of the hash rate limiter.”

[my123]

Signed firmware, probably why they are so reluctant to share those for newer cards for Nouveau… because it’d break their market segmentation.