NVIDIA 170HX Crypto Mining Processor Card with 164 MH/s Hash Rate Spotted

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/03/2021 08:32 AM | source: Codefordl (Zhihu), @9550pro | 28 comment(s)

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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tunejunky
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#5943751 Posted on: 09/03/2021 07:33 PM

They must be using the worst but still barely, if partially, working GA100 chips for this.

nailed it.

DannyD
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#5943752 Posted on: 09/03/2021 07:35 PM

Chip is not important, that HBM tho ..

tunejunky
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#5943759 Posted on: 09/03/2021 08:05 PM

with respect to Kaarme, yeah why throw away bad silicon when you can sell it at a premium?

but we'll see in relation to mining is whether or not Nvidia releases the mining cards first next gen. IF they do it will go a long way to not only easing crunch, but also allow them to claim a measurable gain in efficiency and "greener" manufacturing processes even if that's a bit disingenuous. and TBH, they know the number of passed over chips and for what flaws before release as they have a couple of months for shipping gpus to AIB, which is 6-8 months before release.

if that's what they're doing i hope AMD copies it.

RIVA128
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#5943822 Posted on: 09/04/2021 12:34 AM

It is e-waste and a waste of electricity, double the environmental load. The chips could have been made into proper graphics card products with whatever defects fused off as usual.

ZXRaziel
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#5943936 Posted on: 09/04/2021 02:25 PM

A corporation looking for profit?

They cannot make enough cards to satisfy the demand , making record profits ….
Yes you make loads of sense here , pure logic haha

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