Last week, NVIDIA made a big announcement that it is releasing NVIDIA CMP cards 30HX and 40HX which will be especially for mining. NVIDIA did not reveal much about the CMP cards in its announcement other than the models of the cards, their hashing capabilities, and when they will be releasing.
But some information has surfaced regarding the CMP 30HX and 40HX cards, which are supposed to drop first. According to Videocardz, both the CMP 30HX and 40HX cards will be based on the older Turing architecture and not the newer Ampere architecture, which is used by the RTX 3000 series graphics cards.
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Based on the details published by Videocardz, from the driver string here we can see that the CMP 30HX is based on the TU116 like the GTX 1660 SUPER and the CMP 40HX is based on the RTX 2060 SUPER. If this information is correct, then we can expect the 30HX to hit right around 30MH/s at 85-90w and the 40HX to land between 40-42MH/s at around 125w.
NVIDIA has announced a total of 4 CMP cards. The NVIDIA CMP 30HX and 40HX will launch in Q1 and CMP 50HX and 90HX will launch in Q2. The flagship 90HX CMP card has an Ethereum hash rate of 86 MH/s.
NVIDIA said the following about the CMP Mining cards.
Designed for professional mining operations
NVIDIA CMP allows a fully open, airflow-optimized bracket and is configured to allow a greater number of GPUs to be controlled by one CPU.
Optimized for best mining performance
NVIDIA GPU architecture allows you to mine more efficiently and recoup your mining investment faster.
Available from authorized partners
Available from authorized partners, including ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, Palit, and PC Partner.
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We will have to wait and see how the mining community reacts with these cards and whether they will leave the gaming-specific cards for these mining-specific ones.
