Rumor: Nvidia could be considering another entry in its line of Crypto Mining Processors (CMP), one that would likely be the fastest cryptocurrency miner in the world. The rumor claims that the first GPU Ampere, the A100 designed for AI, HPC workloads and cloud computing, will power a new CMP HX card.
The news comes from the regular kopite7kimi hardware leak. They tweeted that the new CM100 HX card based on the A100 will be a “mining monster”, although no hash rates or performance numbers have been revealed.
Nvidia’s fastest dedicated mining encryption card, the 90HX, has an Ethereum hash rate of 86 MH / s using the Daggerhashimotto algorithm, while the RTX 3090 has an average mining performance of 115-120 MH / s.
I mean, let’s get to know a new CMP HX card based on the A100.
– kopite7kimi (@ kopite7kimi) March 21, 2021
The RTX 3090, which uses the GA102 GPU, has 24 GB of GDDR6X memory with a combined bandwidth of 936.2 GB / s. The PCIe 4.0 version of the Ampere A100 uses HBM2 memory and has a bandwidth of up to 1.6 TB / s. It also has a 250W TDP, lower than the GA102’s 350W, which makes it more efficient.
If Nvidia is adding an A100 GPU-based product to its CMP HX line, there are likely to be some problems, the main one being the price. The PCIe 4.0 version of the A100 has an MSRP of $ 12,500. Although you can’t find an RTX 3090 at its suggested price of $ 1,499 today, miners are still more likely to choose the cheapest game card. There is also the seemingly endless global shortage of chips putting a screwdriver in the works.