This $5000 Graphics Card Can’t Game - NVIDIA CMP 170HX Mining GPU
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Published 2021-11-24
We got our hands on NVIDIA's latest ghost-product CMP 170HX crypto mining card graphics card, and it is SUPER weird. Let's check it out.
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0:00 - Intro
12:27 - He's a thirsty boi
12:36 - Tape, ducks, and boots
All Comments (21)
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UPDATE: We managed to get Blender to run on the CMP card after posting this video. The results are not very good due to limited memory and PCIe bandwidth. Here are render time results for the BMW blender demo. Lower is better. CMP 170HX - CUDA: 36.82s - Optix: 39.33s RTX 3090 TUF - CUDA: 18.40s - Optix: 10.56s
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With the state of the GPU market "$5000 graphics card" could mean anything from a 3090 to a GT 1030
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"its his five grand, not yours" best thing an employee has ever said
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"Started with a slab of aluminum, milled away 90+% of it...." That's aerospace manufacturing in a nutshell.
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from an engineering standpoint. the black fins on the ends are probably "Flow straighteners" they reduce the mixing of air in the channel to decrease differential pressure through the cooling section. allowing for a larger heat transfer from the fins to the cooling medium.
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“The clock goes up but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything” it’s doing nothing, but faster
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Modern day Indianna Jones goes on a quest to acquire the forbidden GPU during a worldwide chip shortage.
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And it's now completely worthless
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I hope they start releasing more of these "mining" cards so the rest of the market can be freed up and we can actually get 1080's again
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The biggest flex is getting a gpu case made entirely out of aluminium even though no one can tell
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Linus is putting so much care into this card specifically. If I remember correctly, he shook a $4000 Titan out of its anti-static bag like it was a $5 Christmas gift.
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The outer fins kinda seem like they guide the air a bit more since running copper fins that far would be expensive. Also they cool the card body and having all those cards nearby in slots would probably be pretty good at keeping them all cooler to the touch.
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The question that remains: How much has Nvidia already earned by mining for itself?
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Linus, "This Card can't game" Also Linus, " We will try to game on it anyways"
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Just saying, I've been loving seeing some of the more enterprise stuff you guys cover. Really cool to see the back end of things.
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I used to work at an hp assembly factory putting together servers, testing them and boxing them up to ship off to whatever country. There was one line boxing up these cards, or an earlier version of them about 6 years ago. Same style minimal casing, no output ports and I could never find them talked about on an Nvidia site but could find other people selling them for 4k+
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Just to let you know, when you're doing your very first render on the Eeves (or Cycles i don't remember) engine, the engine has to compile itself before actually doing rendering. After waiting like 10-15 minutes you will be able to do rendering after rendering. You can see at 19:22 on the line where you can see your frame count, the message "Loading render kernel (may take a few minutes for the first time" indicating you that you will have to wait a bit. Hope you will test this out later or read this comment 😀
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I love when Jake and Linus do a video together. The unscripted troubleshooting bits are great.
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I work with A100's on trays of 8 in servers for a major cloud provider. I can attest that we've had nothing but problems with the 40GB A100 trays and individual GPUs causing a seemingly never ending RMA process. Nvidia has been having big QC issues with their production.
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Its possible the black fins are to ensure that the air passes in a straight line through the card rather than whirling around. They probably found extending the copper didnt help with temps as thermal transfer isnt affective that far from the die (or ihs) in this case
