After hearing about the NVIDIA CMP series of cryptocurrency mining cards, we didn’t really learn too much about who would actually be purchasing them. Now, we know one customer who is ready to implement a lot of the CMP mining cards. Hut 8 Mining Corp. has put in a $30 million order with NVIDIA for …
In mid-February, NVIDIA described the Ethereum hash rate limiter as “a secure handshake between the driver, the RTX 3060 silicon, and the BIOS”. That simply isn’t the case as there have been many instances of Ethereum mining on the RTX 3060 whether it be the accidental 470.05 driver, dummy HDMIs, or BIOS mods. Miner Is …
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The GA100 Ampere GPU from NVIDIA. A few days ago, it was reported that NVIDIA might repurpose its flagship Ampere A100 GPU for cryptocurrency mining. The GPU was said to become the most powerful mining chip ever made however no specifications or performance numbers within mining algorithms were shown. The latest rumor from I_Leak_VN seems …
NVIDIA might possibly be working on a new CMP (Crypto Mining Processor) card which could be based on its Ampere A100 GPU. The Ampere A100 is NVIDIA’s most powerful GPU to date and is currently dedicated to AI and HPC workloads however, it holds the potential to become the fastest cryptocurrency mining GPU on the …
In the weeks after the unintentional NVIDIA GeForce Driver leak that enabled cryptocurrency mining on the GeForce RTX 3060 GPU, miners have found additional ways into bypassing the GPU / Driver hand-shake to break the hash rate limiter on Ampere GPUs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Hash Rate Limit Bypassed Using Dummy HDMI, Breaks GPU/Driver Handshake …
We’ve seen Nvidia take a stance against cryptocurrency mining with the Ethereum hash rate limiter which has been cracked both by miners and with the accidental driver launch. AMD has just made it clear that they will not be restricting any workloads on its GPUs including crypto mining. The intended target of RNDA 2 cards …
We are finally seeing the first of the NVIDIA CMP series to land on the open market and the pricing of it doesn’t look good. The CMP 30HX is the lowest spec mining card in NVIDIA’s CMP lineup. The first CMP 30HX has gone up for sale on the retailer, MicroLess, for 2650 AED which …
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Most of the cryptocurrency mining systems are quite crude, to be honest, but as of late we are seeing more and more systems have more style. Just 3 days ago, we saw an entire rig submerged in mineral oil as a cooling solution. Even before that, we saw an arrangement of 78 NVIDIA GeForce RTX …
Everyone got excited when NVIDIA released a driver that fully unlocked the cryptocurrency mining potential on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, but Nvidia has quickly cleared up the driver release as an accident and that it wasn’t intentional. The 470.05 drivers allowed a single RTX 3060 to mine ETH at its full potential of close …
It looks like our previous report did end up being true as Chinese hackers have now hacked in and bypassed the hash rate limiter set by NVIDIA for its GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card. As confirmed by PC Watch, their editors have confirmed that the hash rate limit bypass is indeed working on the GeForce …
We have all seen some crazy cryptocurrency mining rigs but the latest ones take it one step ahead by putting several NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs under premium cooling. Setups have been spotted by I_Leak_VN which shows mining rigs using premium custom-loop kits and even mineral oil to cool off GeForce RTX GPUs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX …
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NVIDIA’s CMP (Crypto Mining Processor) GPUs with custom cooling designs from AIBs have started showing up. The first of these is the CMP 30HX from Gigabyte that features the mining configured GPU along with custom dual-fan cooling which should deliver optimized thermals when running it in a mining farm. NVIDIA’s Dedicated Cryptocurrency Mining GPUs, the …
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AMD could soon be following NVIDIA in offering its own line of crypto mining-specific graphics cards based on the RDNA GPU architecture. The new graphics cards will reportedly feature the first-generation RDNA architecture and will be primarily designed to handle blockchain crypto-mining algorithms. AMD RDNA Crypto Mining Graphics Cards Reportedly In The Works To Counter …
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NVIDIA’s board partners are getting ready to reintroduce one of the most popular crypto mining GPUs based on the Pascal architecture, the P106. The P106 was launched all the way back in 2017 during the first mining boom and moved large quantities of the GP106 GPU, so much that NVIDIA ended up with an abundance …
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The CMP series has been talked about a lot, but no one really knows what the GPUs are actually based on, aside from the official information that NVIDIA has posted. VideoCardz has just worked with a close source to confirm the specifications of the silicon on the CMP series cards and it looks like only …
NVIDIA made some pretty huge announcements to counter the cryptocurrency mining boom and the subsequent supply outages that are affecting its GeForce line of graphics cards. The company not only announced a dedicated line of GPUs under the CMP (Crypto Mining Processor) banner but also revealed that for upcoming GeForce graphics cards, they will be …
NVIDIA has finally conceded to the overwhelming mining demand facing the GPU market right now and launched a lineup of dedicated cryptocurrency mining GPUs (can we even call them that considering they have no display port?) called CMP. This is short for Cryptocurrency Mining Processor While AIBs have previously rolled out mining variants of GPUs …
Internet and gaming cafe’s around the world may soon become hubs for Cryptocurrency mining as one Vietnamese-based owner has showcased how he’s earning more profits during the pandemic. The Cafe shown here is equipped with several NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards such as the RTX 3080 which has been repurposed to be used as a …
Everyone thought that it couldn’t get worse than having mining farms composed of laptops, but it can. The list of ways crypto is impacting the world is growing from power outages in Iran to hardware shortages, the list only gets longer the more profitable crypto gets. Now, we are seeing internet cafes change how they …
Last week, it was reported how cryptocurrency miners are rushing after NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Gaming Laptops to earn that sweet digital currency profits. Well, now a video tour of one of the mining farms has surfaced showcasing several hundred gaming laptops being used to mine the cryptocurrencies. Several Hundred NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Gaming …