Are miners not happy with Nvidia’s proposed upcoming CMP HX mining cards? Not enough hash power? Well, to answer that problem … NVIDIA could be planning a MP HX mining card based on their A100-based GPU.
Taken from Videocardz … NVIDIA A100 was the first Ampere GPU released months ahead of the GeForce RTX 30 lineup. Unlike the gaming-oriented models, the GA100 solution was designed solely with compute workloads in mind. According to Kopite, the A100 is a “mining monster” without sharing any hash rates or mining performance figures. He claims that NVIDIA will introduce a fifth CMP HX model with said GPU.
NVIDIA A100 also known as A100 Tensor Core GPU was introduced in SXM form factor. Later on, NVIDIA introduced a PCIe-based model with passive cooling. Data centers solutions (formerly Tesla series) have actually a lot in common with mining cards. Both require powerful compute GPUs, lack display connectors, and have a very specific purpose.
Ampere GA100 GPU, being a compute-oriented architecture, would undoubtedly offer better mining performance than GA102+ gaming GPUs. However, miners will only consider this solution if the price is attractive, which might be a problem, considering that NVIDIA A100 PCIe currently retails at 10,000 USD. A CMP-based model would obviously have to cost a lot less. It would probably also lack support for the data center NVIDIA software solutions that make these compute cards so expensive. Otherwise, launching a GA100 based mining card wouldn’t have made much sense to both NVIDIA and miners, but for different reasons.
Source: Videocardz
