Gigabyte Officially Launches First CMP 30HX Mining Card

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Gigabyte has recently launched the first NVIDIA Crypto Mining Processor with the CMP 30HX D6 6G (GV-N30HXD6-6G). The entry-level CMP 30HX mining card features an Ethereum hash rate of 26 MH/s and a TDP of 125 W and was slated by NVIDIA for a Q1 2021 launch. Gigabyte is the first manufacturer to officially launch an NVIDIA CMP card and has revealed some interesting information including that the card is listed as having only a three month warranty period and 14 Gbps 6 GB GDDR6 on a 192-bit memory bus. The card features a WINDFORCE 2X Cooling System with alternate spinning 90 mm fans and no video outputs. NVIDIA also announced the CMP 40HX with a Q1 2021 launch date so we expect that partners will list that card shortly. These cards will be followed by the CMP 50HX, and CMP 90HX in May.



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[Metroid]

1000 usd and 3 month warranty hehehehehehehehehehehehhehe, the way meant to profit from idiots ehhe

 

[londiste]

So, it is effectively a GTX 1660 Super?

 

[Legacy-ZA]

If it's the only thing available to miners, they will have to buy it.

1000 usd and 3 month warranty hehehehehehehehehehehehhehe, the way meant to profit from idiots ehhe

Now now, let's not blow things out of perspective; the MSRP is $720 per card (*giggles*) and I also wouldn't offer a long warranty if I were the manufacturer, the 3-month warranty is no doubt implemented because of the hardware that is running and abused 24/7. This is why I myself no longer buy second-hand GPUs and never will again, there are way too many of them that artifact after their time in the mines.

In any case, miners will buy whatever is available and I don't feel sorry for them, not, one, bit.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

The lack of warranty clearly shows 2 things. 1. Gigabyte knows absolutely shit about mining, or 2. they used left over cheap, dropped on the floor parts and designed it to last only 3 months.

The price is obvious they are trying to take advantage of the greed in major miners.

 

[Hargema]

Waste of silicon although I hope miners get these because they don't seem to know the primary objective of a graphics card and I feel like they want to intentionally disrupt the market to keep their coins relevant, not to mention how our GPUs got better power efficiency, formerly better MSRP and better warranty..

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Waste of silicon although I hope miners get these because they don't seem to know the primary objective of a graphics card and I feel like they want to intentionally disrupt the market to keep their coins relevant, not to mention how our GPUs got better power efficiency, formerly better MSRP and better warranty..

Proof-of-work is a waste in general, not just energy it takes to mine the said cryptocurrency, but also the dedicated hardware it takes to mine them creating e-waste. It's an out-of-date concept and has to adopt or people will move on to better faster technologies.

The irony of course is; those same Proof-of-Work miners complain it's a waste of silicon when the shit they mine is also a waste on other resources. Ergo, they are just complaining they can't get their money back scamming gamers with their artifacting-second rate-shit stained-overworked hardware.

 

[TheUn4seen]

26 MH/s,125W TDP and MSRP of a 3080 which does over 80MH/s when limited to 200W? Plus no resale value and no warranty to speak of? I'm certainly no mining expert but this really seems like a wasted effort.

 

[Vya Domus]

I wonder, is 6Gb even enough anymore ? From what I know some of these algorithms are pushing past that.

 

[nguyen]

26 MH/s,125W TDP and MSRP of a 3080 which does over 80MH/s when limited to 200W? Plus no resale value and no warranty to speak of? I'm certainly no mining expert but this really seems like a wasted effort.

Well Nvidia is expecting to sell 150$mil worth of CMP this quarter, so it's not wasted effort.

 

[zaku49]

Nvidia will probably start locking all of the normal cards moving forward so normal gamers can get their hands on them, and maybe the very high end ones. CMP cards will be the only option for miners on the low end, if it isn't they're still going to buy these due to the limited supply.