NVIDIA P102-100 GPU Spotted For Crypto - has 3200 shader cores and 5GB
One of the more amazing trends in 2017/2018 has got to be the rise in demand for anything crypto related. The entire hardware industry took a dive in it, from motherboards to graphics cards to even more efficient power supplies. Now, a new NVIDIA GPU has been spotted. Well, not entirely new, but reconfigured.
Nvidia seems to be putting a crypto version of an existing GPU on the market, the P102-100 is based on the same GP102 chip that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and GTX Titan Xp use. It, however, will be reconfigured, it'll get fewer memory channels, fewer shader cores and less memory. All this makes the crypto card cheaper to make and sell while retaining high hash rates. The GP102-100 card leaked originates from Inno3D and will have 3200 out of its 3840 shader cores activated.
Inno3D P102-100 Specifications
- GPU: P102-100
- CUDA Cores: 3200
- Base Clock: 1582 MHz
- Memory Clock: 11 Gbps
- Physical Memory Size: 5 GB
- Memory Type: GDDR5X
- Memory Interface Width: 320-bit
- Memory Bandwidth: 400 GB / s
- Bus Support: PCIe Gen3 x4
- Card Size: 21.5 cm length, 12.5 cm height, dual slot
- Max TDP: 250 Watt
- Power Connectors: 2x 8-pin PCI-E
Inno3D P102-100 Hashrate
- ETH: ~ 47 MHS
- ZEC: ~ 660 Sol / s
- XMR: ~ 879 H / s
The memory controllers normally get 2GB per controller assigned, now just 1GB, the card this has 5GB of VRAM. There's more cut away, only 4 PCIe lanes will be used, this to be able to add more (other) cards onto a motherboard. Prices have not been shared, availability remains a huge question mark as well. From what I understand, these cards receive one month of warranty.
Source: cryptomining-blog via HWI.
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they consume so much power for nothing, why dont give them more hardware? or power?
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Finally more than rumours.
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I said I'll leave this thread, and after this post I will and rest assured I'll never post in a mining related thread again, but:
I find it quite ironic that when I present possible solutions to restrict mining (be them feasible or not) the first reply I get that it's selfish.
Sure, because miners do mining for all the selfless reasons only. They're so valiant, in fact, that they indirectly affect all the non-miners by pushing prices up.
As for just increasing production, if it were just a matter of that it would have been done. Customers would pay the investment in prices regardless (because, you know, building facilities and hiring staff costs money.
The actual kind, not bitcoin).
It's the same if the company I work for would try to workaround material shortage by buying more manufacturing equipment. To paraphrase a certain someone makes tote sense brah...
There. Now I'm done. Keep mining or doing whatever, ignoring all consequences and calling everyone who claims otherwise selfish or not understanding how it works.
Hardware needs software to tell it what to do. Period. By extension said software can be excluded from executing (via software means) without affecting hardware functionality.
Anyone thinking otherwise needs to educate themselves on how computers work.
Or more to the point, people need to READ and UNDERSTAND what was written in the first place, not misinterpret it on purpose for argument's sake.
Am I pissed off? Yes I am. I'm also under no delusion that I would be able to be 100 % objective about this, hence I will refrain from commenting again. Among other reasons.
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Hardware needs software to tell it what to do. Period. By extension said software can be excluded from executing (via software means) without affecting hardware functionality.
Anyone thinking otherwise needs to educate themselves on how computers work.
you give off the impression that all you need to do is put in the firmware that if it detects bitcoin.exe for the gpu to not run.
the gpu is just a glorified calculator. Look what happened with the spectre and meltdown patches. You limit functionality and then take a performance hit. What if certain algorithms are shared by both games/video encoders/image processing programs and specific miners?
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So how about cars?
Would you be fine, paying double for the next one, just others decided to abuse them (off road/racing etc), and manufacturers jack up prices?
Its not really about what product is, but the fact that they misuse it, and others have to pay for it.
When something is designed for gaming/video acceleration etc, i dont even care how they are able to use them, just don't want them to able to use gtx cards at all.
And even the name says it all. gpu as in graphic processing unit, not mpu as in mining...
All that besides the fact that any digital currency that isnt backed by anyone, could go bankcrupt tomorrow, and all the resources and especially power spend on mining it, were for nothing.
Mining is already consuming more power than most countries.