Tuesday, March 13th 2018
NVIDIA P102-100 Cryptomining Graphic Card Surfaces
The truth of the matter is that the cryptocurrency boom isn't losing strength yet, and graphics card manufacturers are more than happy to profit off this phenomenon. However, one must have the right tools to mine cryptocurrency effectively. NVIDIA is keen to provide cryptominers with the necessary hardware as they ready their latest GP102-100 card for launch. The GP102-100 should sound familiar to most enthusiasts since it employs the same GP102 chip used in the mainstream GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and GTX Titan Xp graphics cards. Nevertheless, NVIDIA made a few modifications in order to maintain the hash rate while lowering the price at the same time. In other words, we're basically dealing with a gimped version of the GP102 chip with less memory channels, shader cores, and memory.
The Inno3D P102-100 is the first model to show up in the wild. The card packs 3,200 CUDA cores clocked at 1582 MHz and 5 GB of GDDR5X memory operating at 10 Gbps across a 320-bit wide memory interface. Inno3D is utilizing their Twin X2 cooling solution to cool the card. This solution features five heatpipes to draw the heat away from the GPU and two fans to provide active cooling. Being a mining-oriented model, the Inno3D P102-100 lacks a bracket and display outputs. It also only requires four PCIe lanes to function. The Inno3D P102-100 has a 250W TDP rating and draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors. According to Inno3D, their card is capable of mining Ethereum with a hash rate of 47 MH/s which easily beats a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and GTX Titan Xp. Pricing is unknown at the writing of this article.
Inno3D P102-100 Specifications
Source:
Hardware.Info
The Inno3D P102-100 is the first model to show up in the wild. The card packs 3,200 CUDA cores clocked at 1582 MHz and 5 GB of GDDR5X memory operating at 10 Gbps across a 320-bit wide memory interface. Inno3D is utilizing their Twin X2 cooling solution to cool the card. This solution features five heatpipes to draw the heat away from the GPU and two fans to provide active cooling. Being a mining-oriented model, the Inno3D P102-100 lacks a bracket and display outputs. It also only requires four PCIe lanes to function. The Inno3D P102-100 has a 250W TDP rating and draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors. According to Inno3D, their card is capable of mining Ethereum with a hash rate of 47 MH/s which easily beats a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and GTX Titan Xp. Pricing is unknown at the writing of this article.
- GPU: P102-100
- CUDA Cores: 3200
- Base Clock: 1582 MHz
- Memory Clock: 10 Gbps
- Physical Memory Size: 5 GB
- Memory Type: GDDR5X
- Memory Interface Width: 320-bit
- Memory Bandwidth: 400 GB/s
- Bus Support: PCIe Gen3 x 4
- Card Size: 21.5 cm length, 12.5 cm height, dual slot
- Max TDP: 250 Watt
- Power Connectors: 2 x 8-pin PCI-E
- ETH: ~47 MHS
- ZEC: ~660 Sol/s
- XMR: ~879 H/s
33 Comments on NVIDIA P102-100 Cryptomining Graphic Card Surfaces
Amount of memory only matters as long as it is not full with the DAG size. So if you had a 4GB card and DAG was 2.37GB you are fine performance wont change if you have 8/12/16/10000000GB of memory. One of the things we have seen is issues with memory controller strength and "memory bashing" bringing down performance. That is why we saw the implementation of "compute mode" for polaris cards. This issue also existed in tahiti based cards that are especially weak when the memory controller starts getting maxed out. With a smaller DAG file the 79x0 and 280(x) can pull of 24mh/s, with a large DAG file that's down to 15mh/s.
Nvidia needs those channels populated for the bandwidth side of things, but the frame buffer limit from what I understand allows for some software trickery to get the latency down.
i started off with the long term hodle approach and dont give up easy.. :)
trog
i am already down about 10K in US dollar terms from the peak.. i am still not showing a loss on my original investment but its getting close.. he he
but rightly or wrong i still expect crypto to recover and get back to its upward path.. currently its impossible to tell with any certainty what its gonna do..
trog