Wednesday, May 12th 2021
MSI Launches Two CMP 30HX MINER Series Cards
MSI has recently announced two new CMP (Cryptocurrency Mining Processor) 30HX MINER Series cards the MSI CMP 30HX MINER, and MSI CMP 30HX MINER XS. These new cards borrow the coolers from the ARMOR series and VENTUS XS respectively, MSI is one of the first manufacturers to offer multiple versions of a CMP card so it will be interesting to see the differences in performance and pricing given the two cards feature identical specifications. The two cards both feature the TU116-100 GPU with 1408 cores and a base clock of 1530 MHz along with a boost clock of 1785 MHz and 6 GB GDDR6 memory. The cards also lack any display outputs as per all CMP cards and pricing or availability information is not available.
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13 Comments on MSI Launches Two CMP 30HX MINER Series Cards
The only thing you can do, is use it in virtualized environment, but I'm not sure if that freshly-introduced GPU passthrough works with mining cards at all. Tried that too. There were some people on YT that were semi-successful, but in my case it was also a flop.
The only thing that might be doable natively, is using them as poor man's compute accelerator. I know for sure it works fine with most cuda-accelerated apps on linux (and few on windows), but NvEnc/NvDec hardware is also missing, so things like encoding in handbrake or Premiere Pro won't be possible.
I'll get another P104 in a few days, maybe do some more experiments w/ HW modding.
These are intentionally hardware-sabotaged 1660S cards that will soon be e-waste and therefore landfill.
30MH/s isn't even two bucks a day, I don't think.
Edit - that's close to a year before break-even and ETH is "supposed" to move to proof of stake early in 2022. Obviously I'm hoping it'll be late 2022 but that looming deadline makes selling cards for mining that won't break even quite difficult, no? Miners like me aren't interested in CMP cards anyway. Small scale operations need to factor in the resale value of the cards and CMP cards look to be completely unsellable if mining crashes.