Hong Kong Customs Seized 300 Nvidia CMP 30HX Mining GPUs

With Ethereum reaching a new all-time high in value, the craze to employ consumer GPUs for GPUs is far from gone, and further proof of this we see today, where Hong Kong customs showed they had seized nothing less than 300 GPUs focused on mining. Specifically, they were 300 Nvidia CMP 30X GPUs, the least powerful model that Nvidia offers for this purpose.

The motive behind the seizure is not stated, but many regions in China are banning cryptocurrency mining, so that's where the shots could go.

In the images provided, we can see about 100 of these GPUs without any video output and using a dual-fan cooling system.

The Nvidia CMP 30HX is nothing more than a GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER with a Turing TU116-090-A1 silicon to a 12nm manufacturing process that has had the video outputs removed to be an exclusive product for mining, and that implies already much higher profit per sale. This has 1408 CUDA Cores @ 1785 MHz along with 6 GB of GDDR6 @ 14 GHz VRAM memory that, with a 192-bit memory interface, gives us a bandwidth of 336 GB / s with a TDP of 125W and a performance hash rate for Ethereum mining of 26 MH / s.