If you’ve been around the GPU scene for a while, you probably remember the stir caused by NVIDIA’s Beta Driver 470.05.
On the surface, it was just another Windows driver release — a test build that came out quietly in early 2021.
But for enthusiasts and miners, it quickly became the driver to have.
This was the one that, for a short while, bypassed the LHR (Lite Hash Rate) limit on RTX 3060 cards.
Before NVIDIA patched it, 470.05 allowed full mining performance — something later drivers locked down again.
It wasn’t meant for that purpose, but once people discovered it, forums and Discord groups exploded with excitement.
Even outside the mining community, it was a surprisingly solid beta build: stable under gaming loads, clean in benchmarks, and generally well-behaved for something that wasn’t even meant for public release.
