CMP (Cryptocurrency Mining Processor), Nvidia’s solution to save GeForces from miners

“We are players, all the way“. With these words Nvidia he has announced the decision to intervene for to solve, once and for all, the problem of gaming video cards bought en masse by cryptocurrency miners.

With the GeForce RTX 3060 arriving on February 25, Nvidia will take “an important step” to ensure that the new GeForce GPU ends up in the hands of gamers: the card will be able to “detect specific attributes of the algorithm to mine Ethereum, and limit the hash rate, i.e. the efficiency of mining, by about 50%“. We asked Nvidia if this software intervention will also affect the cards already presented (3090, 3080, 3070 and 3060 Ti), but we have been confirmed that it will only concern the RTX 3060 – perhaps because, to get around the problem, the miners it would be enough to keep the old drivers installed.

The new gaming GPU will therefore be meno appetita dai miner, and this should allow it to arrive on store shelves (physical and virtual) not only in volumes, but also at prices that are increasingly consistent with those of the list communicated by Nvidia and its partners.

Said this, the US company knows that the mining market is a goose that lays golden eggs and therefore decided to announce Nvidia CMP, acronym for Cryptocurrency Mining Processor, a line of products for professional mining. “Yes, Nvidia GPUs are programmable. And users are constantly discovering new applications, from weather simulation to genetic sequencing to deep learning and robotics. Cryptocurrency mining is one of them.”

CMP products (called 30HX, 40HX, 50HX e 90HX as you can see in the table with the specifications) will be sold “through authorized partners” and “optimized for best mining performance and efficiency“The Nvidia CMP solutions will be devoid of video outputs, and this will promote better cooling to allow for the creation of mining systems with a higher number of GPUs. In addition, the CMP proposals will appear. lower peak voltages and frequencies for the core, and this will improve mining efficiency, which is very linked to memory and obviously to consumption.

“Creating tailor-made products for customers with specific needs offers the best possible value. With CMP (here the official page on Nvidia’s website), we can help miners build more efficient datacenters while preserving GeForce RTX GPUs for gamers, “the company concludes.