Earlier, we shared a rumor that indicated the use of NVIDIA A100 flagship ampere GPU in a CMP card which might be the rumored CMP 220HX. The Ampere A100 is NVIDIA’s most powerful GPU to date and is currently dedicated to AI and HPC workloads. The rumor came from well-known leaker Kopite7kimi who has made a lot of leaks of NVIDIA’s Ampere line of GPUs and respective SKUs for graphics cards.
And a new leak from I_Leak_VN reveals some more information about the Ampere A100 GPU in a mining CMP card. The rumor suggests that the Ampere A100 GPU will be featured in the NVIDIA CMP 220HX crypto mining card. The Ampere A100 is NVIDIA’s flagship GPU and the company’s most powerful GPU to date.
220HX, 210MH/s, 3k$ https://t.co/4IJhsAUOTP
— I_Leak_VN (@I_Leak_VN) March 22, 2021
However, the current A100 GPU in PCIe form factor costs about $11,000 US. But according to this rumor, NVIDIA is aiming for a much lower price for the CMP 220HX which may make it an attractive option for cryptocurrency mining operations.
According to the new information, the CMP 220HX will be able to mine Ethereum with a has rate of 210 MH/s, which is almost twice of the current best consumer GPU, the RTX 3090. According to NiceHash, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 earns you a daily income of around $11 US which can be maximized to $13-$14 US with a tuned configuration. NiceHash also lists the NVIDIA Ampere A100 40 GB which has a base daily income of $17 US which could be tuned to around $19-$20 US.
The NVIDIA Ampere A100 is a beast of a card that features HBM2 memory for a bandwidth of up to 1.6 TB/s. The PCIe variant of the A100 has a TDP of 250W versus 350W for the GA102 GPU. This could lead to much better efficiency and much higher hash-rate capabilities for the A100 in cryptocurrency mining.
We will have to wait and see what NVIDIA is planning for future CMP cards.
