Lin cryptocurrency mining uses the high computing power of GPUs as well as the bandwidth of VRAM to do its job, which makes it highly sought after. In NVIDIA’s mining GPU lineup is the CMP HX 170 based on its A100 chip, the company’s most powerful processor in green.
So-called generalist computing via GPUs, which involves using them to run algorithms that have nothing to do with rendering, has several applications, including cryptocurrency mining, which has raised its price, and that they can raise capital much higher than their suggested retail price. Well, of the various GPUs in the market by NVIDIA, the most powerful of all is the one dubbed the A100, which was released for the high performance computing or HPC market under the NVIDIA Tesla brand.
NVIDIA CMP HX 170, your most powerful mining GPU
Apart from the computing power of a GPU, when mining is also important the bandwidth of the GPU and in this case it is the HBM2E memory which has all the numbers to be ideal for mining. Something that has already been observed in the AMD Radeon VII and its 4096-bit configuration under this type of memory, which leads one to wonder what would happen if an NVIDIA A100 was mined with a memory bus 50% larger thanks to to the use of its six HBM Batteries.
The CMP HX 170 is a compute GPU designed for data centers, which with a power consumption close to 200W consumes an Ethereum mining rate of 16 million hashes per second. The GPU is not only trimmed in consumption, but it has 4,480 CUDA cores instead of the 6192 of the original A100. As for VRAM, another big change, this model only has 8GB of memory in a 4096-bit HBM2E configuration instead of using NVIDIA Tesla’s 6192-bit bus. On the other hand, like the rest of cards based on the NVIDIA A100 chip, it has no video output and therefore cannot be used to generate graphics.
Noted for its huge heat sink
There is no doubt that over time new cooling and heat dissipation systems will emerge for new packaging systems such as the 2.5DIC which uses GPUs using HBM2E memory, which require an interposer. In the picture you can see how the A100 GPU, memory, and interposer where they are mounted has a heat sink mounted right above it.
This mining card cannot be used for playing games, because it is not even capable of computer rendering and is not recognized by any driver, so it can only be used for mining and, therefore, it is not suitable for scientific calculation. a professional server GPU. What is clear that its performance is much higher than that of the RTX 3090, but with a price of 5000 dollars it does not seem attractive to mine if you take into account its cost.
