Nvidia has made it official: An improved hash rate limiter is coming to the RTX 3080, RTX 3070, RTX 3060 Ti, and RTX 3060 in an effort to put more of its graphics cards in the hands of gamers. In an Nvidia blog post, the company said: “To help put GeForce GPUs in the hands of gamers, we announced in February that all GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards ship with a reduced Ethereum hash rate. “Today we are taking further action by applying a reduced ETH hash rate to the new GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards. These cards will begin shipping at the end of May. The new cards will need to carry a Light Hash Rate or LHR label to differentiate them from other RTX cards without the transparency limiter, and possibly for legal reasons as well. This is great news for gamers hoping to see more graphics card inventory in the near future, as it removes at least one element of the very high demand for these graphics cards: cryptominers. A hash rate limiter was introduced with the RTX 3060, but unfortunately it was quickly circumvented, including the accidental release of a beta driver by one of Nvidia's partners that disabled the limiter entirely. Hopefully, with the new GPU SKUs, we'll see an improvement over those previous efforts, including a non-bypassable hash rate limiter. However, there are reasons for hope. As Wccftech points out, these new cards will all be new GPUs, so hopefully there is more of a hardware solution to the mining problem than something that can be disabled with something as simple as a driver.