Miners need a little decorative spice in their lives, too.
Mining cryptocurrency is just one small part of the problem that plagues the semiconductor industry related to chip shortages, with the increased demand for GPU compute power. However, NVIDIA has been catering to this market in hopes of alleviating demand pressure on gaming graphics cards with its CMP HX family of cards. The company’s OEM partners have gotten in on the crypto fun as well of course. Last week, Gigabyte officially announced its CMP 30HX mining card complete with an abbreviated three month limited warranty. Mining is hard on cards, so manufacturers aren’t lining up to extend warranties as long as graphics cards designed for gaming purposes. The CMP 30HX is based on NVIDIA’s TU116-100 graphics processor, which also powers the GeForce GTX 1660. Now it looks like ASUS will be bringing its own CMP 30HX card to market, if photos that have popped up online turn out to be legitimate.
