Nvidia CMP 30HX and 40HX, revealed the mystery: GPU Turing at the service of mining

The GeForce Game Ready 461.72 WHQL drivers published by Nvidia in the past few hours not only support the new GeForce RTX 3060 12GB, but hide the confirmation to the voices of recent days: CMP, the new line of accelerators aimed at miners, it is also based on Turing GPU.

Announced by Nvidia with few details, this line of accelerators consists of four models (30HX, 40HX, 50HX and 90HX) with no video outputs to allow for better cooling to help create denser “mining rigs”. The cards also feature lower peak voltages and frequencies for the core, and this should improve mining efficiency, which is very much related to memory and consumption.

CMP cards cannot be purchased in traditional stores, but only through authorized partners and distributors. The first models to hit the market are the 30HX and 40HX, and a few lines of code in the drivers reveal that on board the 30HX there is a TU116 GPU, while on 40HX we find a TU106. The actual configuration is unclear, but Nvidia stated that these are “specs that do not meet the requirements of a GeForce GPU”, so there is no impact on the availability of GPUs for gaming cards.

We will learn more about the CMP 50HX and 90HX models in the second quarter, when these solutions debut and Nvidia will be forced to publish drivers that support them. At the moment, rumors are betting that 90HX is based on an Ampere GPU, while on 50HX there is still uncertainty between Turing and the new architecture. In the latest record quarterly, Nvidia quantified the turnover related to the purchases of cards by miners at 100-300 million dollars, but the company has made it clear that it does not have a clear picture because the sale is managed by the partners. AIB and the canal.