The CMP 40HX is an enthusiast-class professional graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on February 25th, 2021. Built on the 12 nm process, and based on the TU106 graphics processor, in its TU106-100-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12 Ultimate. The TU106 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 445 mm² and 10,800 million transistors. It features 2304 shading units, 144 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs. Also included are 288 tensor cores which help improve the speed of machine learning applications. The card also has 36 raytracing acceleration cores. NVIDIA has paired 8 GB GDDR6 memory with the CMP 40HX, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1470 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1650 MHz, memory is running at 1750 MHz (14 Gbps effective). Being a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA CMP 40HX draws power from 1x 8-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 185 W maximum. This device has no display connectivity, as it is not designed to have monitors connected to it. CMP 40HX is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 3.0 x16 interface. The card's dimensions are 229 mm x 111 mm x 35 mm, and it features a dual-slot cooling solution. Its price at launch was 699 US Dollars.