NVIDIA Confirms That Its 30HX and 40HX Chips For Crypto Mining Are Based On The Turing Architecture

NVIDIA confirmed with the arrival of its latest drivers that the processors dedicated to crypto mining, the CMP 30HX, and 40HX, use the Turing architecture. Therefore, by not being based on Ampere, these will not affect the stock of the GeForce RTX 30.

Certainly, the announcement of the green team about their new CMP chips for cryptocurrency mining came as a surprise to everyone. The company did not detail these processors at the time, so some questions about their specifications were left open as if the stock of the new GPUs would be affected. However, it turns out that the first models will not be based on the Ampere architecture, which means that the availability of RTX 30 graphics cards will not be affected.

It was rumored that due to the relatively high power consumption, the chips announced by NVIDIA were based on older architecture, something that would make a lot of sense, especially since the main goal was to decongest the new GPUs.

Following the release of the company's latest 461.72 Game Ready drivers, it was confirmed that the first CMP series crypto mining processors, the 30HX and 40HX, will use the previous generation Turing architecture. Hence, the CMP 40HX would feature a custom TU106 processor, while the 30HX would be equipped with a TU116-based GPU.

So far, NVIDIA announced four CMP HX (Crypto Mining Processor) cards that will offer a hash rate on Ethereum from 26 MH / s to 125W to  86 MH / s to 320W. The 30HX and 40HX (6 and 8GB) models will launch this first quarter, while the other two variants, the 50HX, and 90HX (10GB), will be available in the second quarter.

NVIDIA's 30HX and 40HX crypto mining processors will not affect the stock of the RTX 30s as they will be Turing-based. A good one?