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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