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.

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