- I guess that's one advantage to having that IHS is that your HBM is now gonna be cooled by your main GPU cooler. - There's no things on the back. - There's hardly any difference in temp between the HBMNUMBER_TOKENE and the GPU. So the NUMBER_TOKEN is NUMBER_TOKEN kilohash per watt. And sorry, what is the CMP? - NUMBER_TOKEN. - [Linus] NUMBER_TOKEN. - [Jake] And I've seen people with a Linux OS that's a little bit more efficient, can get like around NUMBER_TOKEN. - That's insane. - Mind you, a tuned NUMBER_TOKEN, you could probably get around NUMBER_TOKEN kilohash a watt. It's still double. - And that's with us tuning it in like four seconds. - NUMBER_TOKEN. We can definitely get to NUMBER_TOKEN kilohash a watt, I'm sure. - How can this be NUMBER_PERCENTAGE_TOKEN to NUMBER_PERCENTAGE_TOKEN faster than the top tier G-Force GPU and double the efficiency while on the same MPR architecture? - Yeah, that's crazy. - Let's talk about that. There are a number of reasons, but the main one is likely memory bandwidth. The Ethereum mining algorithm is almost entirely bottlenecks by memory bandwidth. So if you have a approximately NUMBER_PERCENTAGE_TOKEN memory bandwidth difference, and that correlates to a NUMBER_PERCENTAGE_TOKEN to NUMBER_PERCENTAGE_TOKEN performance difference, that mostly checks out. As for the power drop, while they're based on the same and pure architecture, the ANUMBER_TOKEN Silicon is manufactured on TSMC's seven nanometer process rather than Samsung's eight nanometer process, which is what's used on the NUMBER_TOKEN series gaming cards. That's gonna help you on efficiency for sure. So there's no doubt that this is a killer piece of hardware for crypto miners, but there are still a couple of questions left to answer. With the looming proof of stake migration for Ethereum on the horizon. Does it make sense to buy a pricey card that at current profitability could take about a year to pay itself off and has zero value whatsoever outside of mining crypto? Well, if Nvidia's shortfall in CMP business unit revenues are anything to go by. Most people think probably not. Reselling old mining cards is one of the ways that miners will recoup their costs in the event of a crash or a legislative change. I'll let you guys make the final call on all of that though. I guess it's also time to make the final call on Nvidia's claim then that CMP products would not affect the shortages of gaming products because they would not be redirecting Silicon that could have ended up in a gaming GPU. And in this instance, it actually does appear that there's validity to Nvidia's claims. This GPU is clearly compute only with no meaningful gaming utility. Though, the same cannot necessarily be said of the other CMP cards. Let us know if you'd like to see us take a look at those in the future. Whether you've been thinking about learning to repair your own devices or just wanting to take your hobby to the next level, iFixit got you covered, and now is the time to get kitted out 'cause iFixit's
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