Nvidia Prepares a Crypto Mining GPU to Dethrone RTX 3090
According to leaks, Nvidia is working on the most powerful crypto mining device in history. The powerful chip A100 may be the heart of the 220HX, a card intended aimed specifically at miners.
- ETH - 210 MH/s;
- TDP - 250W;
- Do crypto miners need anything more?
According to information provided by verified "leakers", Nvidia is said to be working on a very powerful GPU designed for cryptocurrency mining. The Ampere A100 chip, originally intended for data centers and artificial intelligence computing, is to be the heart of a new model from the CMP (Cryptocurrency Mining Processor) series. Reaching 210 MH/s, 220HX - because this is the designation it would bear - can be almost twice as efficient at mining Ethereum than GeForce RTX 3090 (115-120 MH/s). Such a good result is possible thanks to the high memory bandwidth, which in the case of A100 is 1555 GB/s (for comparison, RTX 3090 offers 936 GB/s).
This is in response to an earlier post of a well-known informant kopite7kimi, who specializes in leaks on Nvidia Ampere cards. The very fact of combining the A100 chip with crypto mining has already been picked up by many tech websites. Meanwhile, user I_Leak_VN (who has more than 10 thousand subscribers and is also the author of many verified reports), provided some relevant information about the card's name and performance.
However, miners may be deterred by the price. The A100 chip is an industrial machine with 40GB of HBM2e memory, containing 108 SMs and 6912 CUDA cores - that's a total of 54 billion transistors per chip. The PCIe version currently costs over $10,000. Some speculate that the 220HX may be priced similarly, but user I_Leak_VN suggests a price of $3000. This could mean that the miner version will be shafted compared to the standard A100.
ETH mining does not require as much as 40 GB of memory, so probably the miner versions will have much less gigabytes (probably 8 GB, but for now it's just a guess). The power requirement of PCIe devices based on A100 is 250W, while RTX 3090 needs 350W (TDP). If the new card for miners actually costs as much as we more or less have to give for Nvidia's top gaming model these days, with twice the performance and lower power consumption, it could be quite an interesting proposition. However, it is worth noting that the lack of video outputs is not an advantage for miners, because such a card can not be easily sold later on second-hand market.
