Nvidia begins selling its top mining GPU CMP 170HX for $4,300

The most powerful mining chip in the Nvidia CMP 170HX series is now available to retail buyers. This is сообщает Tom’s Hardware.

Sales of the GPU started in the Dubai-based Vipera online store, which received a batch of 230 units.

At its core, the CMP 170HX is a GA100 graphics processor based on the Ampere architecture, equipped with 4,480 CUDA cores and 8 GB of HBM2e memory with a 4096-bit memory interface. The adapter delivers up to 164 MH/s for Ethereum mining.

The mining processor ships with a locked vBIOS, which means it cannot be overclocked or modified by software. It also cannot be used as a regular graphics card, as it lacks a display-output connector.

The CMP 170HX consumes 250 W, which is lower than the flagship GeForce RTX 3090.

The price of the adapter is $4,300. Previously, the device could only be bought at auction for more than $5,200.

To meet demand from miners, Nvidia released a line of five CMP chips (Cryptocurrency Mining Processor). The performance of the youngest model in the series for Ethereum mining is 26 MH/s.

In September, the senior CMP 170HX also successfully passed testing in Ethereum, Raven and Conflux mining.

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