Nvidia pushes new chips exclusively for cryptocurrency miners

guest · Jun 23, 2021

Nvidia hedges against cryptocurrency hangover with new line of chips just for miners
Nvidia has created a new line of chips, called CMPs, exclusively for cryptocurrency miners
June 22, 2021
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/...nst-cryptocurrency-hangover-chips-just-miners

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, a US$1,199 graphics card, and the RTX 3070 Ti, which costs about half that amount, have had some of their capabilities deliberately stripped out.
Instead, Nvidia is pushing a chip just for the miners. The company’s extreme action is one result of the rising influence of cryptocurrencies, touching on the retail market, the environment, and the worlds of finance and technology.

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang is swimming against this cryptocurrency tide. His company needs to avoid a repeat of the 2017 run-up in demand for its graphics chips, which are the most efficient off-the-shelf semiconductors for solving math problems to create the codes that are the basis of cryptocurrencies.
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Chief among them is the introduction of crypto-mining processors, or CMPs, which Nvidia has created exclusively for miners. A US$400 million chunk of second-quarter revenue will come from them, according to the company’s projections.

These processors cannot be used in computers for gaming or any other conventional graphics-related tasks, Nvidia’s Huang said in an interview. That cuts off the possibility of them flooding the secondary market later when miners decide to dump them in bulk as they upgrade to faster hardware.

“With CMP we learned to move faster,” Huang said. He indicated that he has inoculated Nvidia from the worst of any potential crash caused by crypto-mining graphics card use and disposal.
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guest · Oct 24, 2021

Nvidia's top-of-the-line CMP cryptomining GPU is now available for $4,300
The Nvidia CMP 170HX delivers up to 164 MHps
October 24, 2021
https://www.techspot.com/news/91903-nvidia-top-line-cmp-cryptomining-gpu-now-available.html

In context: On top of the component shortage contributing to rising prices of graphics cards, crypto miners have further influenced the global shortage of GPUs by buying up all possible stock. Naturally, gamers have been affected, with Nvidia "addressing" the situation by announcing its dedicated CMP GPUs for cryptomining. One such variant has now become available for an eye-watering price.

The Nvidia CMP 170HX is the flagship GPU in the company's "Cryptocurrency Mining Processor" series. As spotted in Tom's Hardware, the card has gone up for sale at Vipera, a retailer in Dubai. The store claims to have 238 units in stock for a price of $4,300. It was also found on a Yahoo auction in Japan where the seller is asking for $5,285.
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Futile for gamers due to the lack of display outputs, Nvidia's CMP 170HX receives power via a single 8-pin pci-e connector, joined by a 250W TDP. It also features a GA100 die with 4480 CUDA cores, along with 8 GB of HBM2e VRAM.
In terms of hash rate, the CMP 170HX can reportedly deliver up to 164 MHps for mining Ethereum. That's a big figure compared to the listed CMP models on Nvidia's official website, with the maximum ETH hash rate performance reaching 86 MH/s for the 90HX.
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