The first card from the NVIDIA CMP mining series has arrived for sale in the market and is priced very high. The NVIDIA CMP 30HX is the card that has gone up for sale and is the lowest spec mining card in NVIDIA’s CMP lineup however the sale price does not say that it is low spec at all. The card was listed on a retail website called Microless for 2650 AED which converts to about $723.
The NVIDIA CMP 30HX mining card is based on the TU116-100 GPU, which is the same GPU that powers the GTX 1660 Super. The CMP 30HX has 1408 CUDA cores and 6GB of GDDR6 memory. The card listed on Microless is the Palit CMP 30HX.
The Palit CMP 30HX looks like a modified version of the company’s GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER. The CMP card has identical clock speeds and the same TU116 GPU. The NVIDIA CMP 30HX has a base clock speed of 1530 MHz and a boost clock speed of 1785 MHz. The card has 6 GB of GDDR6 memory with a total bandwidth of 14 Gbps.
The card features a dual-fan cooling solution in an all-black color scheme and there is no type of LED lighting in the card. Like all CMP cards, this card does not feature a video output display. The card listing on Microless was spotted by momomo_us.
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Coming to the mining performance of the CMP 30 HX card, it gets a hash rate of 26 MH/s while mining Ethereum. Considering the price, this performance is very very poor. The mining performance is very similar to the GTX 1660 Super, but the CMP 30 HX costs almost $721 USD according to the retail listing.
On the other hand, the RTX 3060 when available at retail for $329 offers near-equal mining performance with the hash rate limiter. With the hash limiter bypassed, the 3060 gets around 50 MH/s which is almost double that of the CMP 30HX.
We will have to wait and see how miners react to this card and whether they will even go for these cards or not.
