Nvidias powerful new mining GPU spotted could this be good news for gamers?

Date:
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:38:45 +0000

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The CMP 170HX, which was leaked back in June, seemingly blows away the RTX 3090 in terms of mining chops.

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Nvidias powerful GPU for crypto-miners which was leaked a few months back would seem to be real, with pics of the purported product now turning up on Twitter.

The graphics card in question is the CMP 170HX, which is a beast of a GPU by the look of things, and apparently passively cooled, with images and info shared on Twitter by hardware leaker HXL. Confirms CMP 170HXSource: https://t.co/JubjHbUg9R https://t.co/z6u1Hpga9X pic.twitter.com/aGYw6qHDYj September 2, 2021 See more

This latest in Nvidias line of CMP (dedicated mining card) products
supposedly runs with the GA100 GPU, the same graphics chip that Team Greens A100 compute GPU is built around (a seriously powerful card aimed at the
likes of heavy data crunching and AI applications). AMD vs Nvidia : who makes the best graphics card? Where to buy RTX 3080 Ti : find stock here We'll show you how to build a gaming PC

Itll supposedly be capable of attaining a hash rate of 164MH/s for Ethereum mining, which to give you some perspective, compares with around the 130MH/s mark for an RTX 3090 (which draws 350W of power, compared to 250W for the CMP 170HX, so efficiency is much better with the mining card as youd expect).

As this is a mining card, it doesnt have a video output, because
crypto-miners will not need to connect this GPU to a monitor, of course its purely for the purpose of mining. A giant graphics chip like this being passively cooled, meaning it doesnt have any fans, is an interesting move
too, but then people building super-heavyweight mining rigs based on this GPU will doubtless be sufficiently prepared to be running some kind of advanced cooling setup anyway.

As detailed by the previous leak in June , the specs of the CMP 170HX peg it with 4,480 CUDA cores and boost to 1.4GHz, with 8GB of HBM2e (very speedy) video memory on-board, and a memory bandwidth of 1.5TB/s. Keep your salt
handy with all this, as ever, though. Analysis: Will this really help availability of Nvidias gaming GPUs?

It certainly cant hurt to have another dedicated GPU for miners, and a very powerful option for those serious about their crypto-mining endeavors. Theoretically, this should help to keep high-end gaming graphics cards out of the hands of miners , then. In short, every mining card bought is potentially another gaming card available for the real target audience of GeForce GPUs (namely gamers).

That said, in reality, how much of an impact the CMP 170HX will have when its launched well, if its launched, as we still cant take this leak as concrete confirmation, although the spilled materials certainly look convincing is debatable.

We mustnt forget that part of the attraction of getting a high-end gaming
card for crypto usage is that particularly now theyre so in demand, the
resale value of the GPU will be strong far more so than with a mining card. So once done with the graphics card, the miner can recoup some or maybe even a good deal of their initial investment.

Furthermore, while its true that newer RTX 3000 series graphics cards have a hash rate limiter, workarounds are already partly circumventing this , and thus even these LHR (Light Hash Rate) gaming GPUs are becoming more tempting propositions for miners.

We can still keep our fingers crossed that the CMP 170HX has a positive
impact in terms of easing stock issues of GeForce RTX 3000 GPUs, though. How to build a PC : a step-by-step guide to building the best PC

Via PC Gamer



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