NVIDIA 170HX Crypto Mining Processor Card with 164 MH/s Hash Rate Spotted
Early this year, NVIDIA announced Turing based Crypto Mining Processor (CMP) cards that ranged in speed from 26MH/s to an astonishing 85MH/s.
They were built on Turing/Ampere silicon and had cooling methods that were devised by board-partners to meet their requirements. The NVIDIA 170HX, which will be passively cooled and built on the NVIDIA A100 accelerator with a GA100 graphics processor, appears to be the company's new flagship model for the foreseeable future.
This new mining card has 4480 CUDA cores and 8 GB of HBM2E RAM, which is a major reduction from the previous GA100-based mining cards' capabilities. For the goal of preventing the card from being used for anything other than cryptocurrency mining, NVIDIA has intentionally limited the card's PCIe interface to Gen 1 x4 speeds. The 170HX's BIOS does not allow for RAM overclocking, resulting in a hash rate of only 164 MH/s when utilizing the Etash algorithm, which is significantly lower than the industry standard.
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This text has no sense whatsoever...
"major reduction from previous GA100 based mining cards" what previous GA100 based mining cards?!
"resulting in a hash rate of only 164 MH/s when utilizing the Etash algorithm, which is significantly lower than the industry standard." what exactly is an "industry standard hashrate" lol? also saying "only 164 MH/s" when 3080 is pulling max 100 tuned and tweaked...
"that ranged in speed from 26MH/s to an astonishing 85MH/s" if 85 MH/s is astonishing then how the hell double that is "only" (see above)
this site really needs some better editors
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Don't think the site needs editors, guru3d is one of if not the highest regarded tech sites on the planet.
I did raise my eyebrows reading this article tho.
Not that it matters cause crypto is mostly frowned upon here and the important numbers were in the pics.
*that being said fellow gurus are very patient with us hobby miners.
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Just stop with the mining hardware garbage already. What has mining to do with 3D ? As in 3D guru.
Are you now crypto guru?
the article was simply slid across Hilbert's desk and he posted it. he never gave it a thumbs up or thumbs down... we cannot hide real world facts.
But yeah, I do see your point.
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"resulting in a hash rate of only 164 MH/s when utilizing the Etash algorithm, which is significantly lower than the industry standard." what exactly is an "industry standard hashrate" lol? also saying "only 164 MH/s" when 3080 is pulling max 100 tuned and tweaked...
"that ranged in speed from 26MH/s to an astonishing 85MH/s" if 85 MH/s is astonishing then how the hell double that is "only" (see above)
this site really needs some better editors

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164 mh/s @250w? yes please.