Nvidia's new crypto-specific GPU, the CMP 30HX, was briefly available for purchase online before being pulled, but from what has been revealed about its hash rate and price, there's a serious question as to whether anyone will be interested. in buying it. . As reported by Twitter leaker momomo_us, the Palit Nvidia GeForce CMP 30HX was briefly available online at Microless, but it appears to have been withdrawn shortly after.
Palit Nvidia GeForce CMP 30HX, 6 GB GDDR6 192 bit, 14 Gbit/s, 26 MH/s hash rate, memory. Bandwidth 336 (GB / s) | Buy NE630HX017J9-1160X, lowest price. Worldwide shipping https://t.co/ckkA3By1XK723.84 USD Mar 17, 2021 More information According to momomo_us, the price was AED 2650, or about €724. If that price is legitimate, a wrong price after all could be the reason the page was removed, it would make the first CMP we've seen in the wild very unappealing to cryptominers. The card appears to be a rebranded Palit GeForce GTX 1660 Super, according to Wccftech, with a base clock speed of 1,53GHz, expandable to 1,78GHz. It has 6GB GDDR6 VRAM clocked at 14Gbps with dual-fan cooling solution, TDP 125W and without video output. More importantly, the hashrate given for the card is 26 MH/s.
Why the CMP 30HX is not the solution for crypto miners who buy GPUs for gaming, yet
Assuming the CMP 30HX's specs and price hold up over the next few weeks, this first effort by Nvidia to fight cryptominers buying the best graphics cards is likely to go nowhere. Since this CMP is essentially a GTX 1660 Super, its Ethereum hash rate is around 26 MH/s, roughly the same as the hash rate of the RTX 3060 with the hash rate limiter enabled. Given that the RTX 3060 starts at around €329, spending more than double that for a CMP 30HX doesn't make sense from a mining perspective. For the same amount, you can buy two RTX 3060s and double the hash rate of the Palit CMP HX30 with the hash limiter enabled. And since we now know that it's possible to disable the RTX 3060's hash rate limiter via a pilot, miners will almost certainly find a way to beat this limiter in the future, meaning an RTX 3060 could achieve twice as much. of the hash rate of the CMP 30HX alone for less than half the cost of the CMP 30HX. For the price of the leaked Palit CMP 30HX card, miners could theoretically get four times the mining performance by purchasing two RTX 3060 cards instead. So yeah, not good. There will be other CMPs that will come with better hash rates, but they will need to be aggressively priced to make it more profitable for miners to switch from traditional graphics cards to CMPs.