On February 18, NVIDIA released CMP, a family of GPUs dedicated to mining. The motivation for this was to prevent the demand on the GeForce RTX 3000 from skyrocketing and availability from being reduced, hurting gamers. Therefore, cryptocurrency miners will have their own GPUs.
The shortage of graphics cards forces solutions and NVIDIA has moved tab by presenting several models for miners. To push them to buy CMPs, they will limit the RTX 3000 via software, silicon, and BIOS. So, miners are "forced" to opt for this family of GPUs, which we are going to analyze in-depth and tell you everything we know.
What is NVIDIA CMP?
NVIDIA has a graphics card shortage problem, and this has grown due to demand from the mining world. The demand for cryptocurrency miners is no joke because they do not buy one GPU, but several. This reduces the chances that a gamer can access an NVIDIA RTX 30.
In this way, "the green beast" decides to offer a solution: create a line of graphics cards fully focused on mining. This is how NVIDIA CMP was born, differentiating itself from the GeForce family of the same brand.
GeForce is made for gaming, CMP is made for mining
First, they've limited the RTX 3060 drivers as a deterrent. These allow you to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum algorithm and then limit the hash rate to half (50%). The purpose of this practice is to avoid profitability in mining with GeForce RTX GPUs, so it will be applied to future releases (RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 3080 Ti).
On the other hand, NVIDIA announces CMP for the "specific needs of Ethereum mining ". The acronym CMP refers to Cryptocurrency Mining Processor. The brand makes it clear from the first moment that it is a "professional" range.
NVIDIA is going to sell its CMPs through the same assemblers that we see in GeForce (ASUS, MSI, GIGABYTE, Colorful, Palit, and EVGA), which will optimize each GPU in order to provide the user with better performance: ventilation, cooling, overclocking, etc.
As these graphics are not going to be suitable to play, NVIDIA achieves a "win-win": gamers have more availability and miners get a specific GPU for what they are looking for.
Features of NVIDIA GPUs for mining
The first feature is that the CMPs do not have DisplayPort or HDMI ports (video outputs), allowing more powerful cooling when extracting hot air from the RIGs. Also, they come with a lower voltage and lower frequency, which translates into lower power consumption.
Do not forget that miners calculate the profitability of mining of each GPU based on the consumption / cost of electricity. The fact of having GPUs focused on mining and that consume less is a “hoot” for NVIDIA because it means that the profitability will be higher; therefore, it will be a more attractive product.
From another point of view, we can think that NVIDIA is cutting production costs, right?
Proof of this is the architecture that NVIDIA CMP HX will have: except for a model based on Ampere, all GPUs will come based on Turing. The RTX 2000 hit the market in 2018, but it is worth remembering the Bitcoin boom between 2017-2018: it shook the market for mining graphics cards, raising prices and reducing stock.
The RTX 2080 / Super / Ti were the models of choice for many miners for their incredible cryptocurrency mining potential. In fact, there are still RIGs equipped with those models that continue to be profitable.
NVIDIA CMP HX Models - Specifications
NVIDIA CMP HX consists, initially, of 4 main models: 30HX, 40HX, 50HX and 90HX. To make it more visual and interesting, we insert the table with the specifications of the 4 graphics cards.
As we know that the "GPU" data can be a bit confusing, or not useful, we wanted to give you another table so that you know which NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards equip it. In this way, you will get a general idea of what type of graphics cards you have in front of you:
TU116-100 | TU106-100 | TU102-100 | GA102-100 |
GTX 1650 | RTX 2060 | RTX 2080 Ti | RTX 3080 |
| GTX 1650 SUPER | RTX 2070 SUPER | GRID RTX T10-16 | RTX 3080 Ti |
GTX 1660 | RTX 2070 | GRID RTX T10-4 | RTX 3090 |
| GTX 1660 Super | Quadro RTX 3000 Max-Q | TITAN RTX | RTX A40 |
GTX 1660 Ti | Quadro RTX 3000 Mobile | Quadro RTX 6000 | RTX A6000 |
Considering the hash rates they have, the 30HX offers similar performance to the RX 580, GTX 1060 or GTX 1070 in Ethereum mining. On the other hand, the NVIDIA CMP 40HX is positioned between an RTX 2060 and RTX 2070 in terms of performance. The CMP 50HX would pair with a Vega 64 or RTX 2080 Super, while the 90HX would pair with an RTX 3080-3090.
What are the GPUs with the best hash rate?
This question is easy to assail us, as well as whether it is worth waiting for an NVIDIA CMP HX, or opting for an RTX 3000 in relation to mining. Well, we are going to give you the data that we have on the table TODAY, and for the record that it is mere information. We can summarize the best cards for mining in 2021 in the following.
GTX 1080 Ti | 21.63 MH / s | 11 GB GDDR5X | 250 W | Fresh and powerful |
| GTX 1660 Super | 26 MH / s | 6 GB GDDR6 | 125 W | Cheap and low consumption |
RX 580 | 29 MH / s | 8GB GDDR5 | 150 W | Good price, low consumption and good performance |
RTX 2070 | 43.3 MH / s | 8GB GDDR6 | 225 W | Good price in 2nd hand |
RX 5700 XT | 54 MH / s | 8GB GDDR6 | 225 W | Good GPU in every way |
RTX 3060 Ti | 60 MH / s | 8GB GDDR6 | 200 W | Balanced in performance, price and consumption |
RTX 2080 Ti | 60.1 MH / s | 11 GB GDDR6 | 260 W | Good performance |
| Radeon VII | 83.6 MH / s | 16GB HBM2 | 295 W | Great performance / consumption |
RTX 3080 | 93.6 MH / s | 10 GB GDDR6X | 238 W | Brutal mining / price ratio |
| RTX 3090 | 106.5 MH / s | 24 GB GDDR6X | 279 W | The best in mining |
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