{"id":123418,"date":"2021-06-04T16:53:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/leaked-nvidia-cryptocurrency-card-could-be-powerful-enough-to-save-gaming-gpus-from-the-mines"},"modified":"2021-06-04T16:53:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:53:56","slug":"leaked-nvidia-cryptocurrency-card-could-be-powerful-enough-to-save-gaming-gpus-from-the-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/leaked-nvidia-cryptocurrency-card-could-be-powerful-enough-to-save-gaming-gpus-from-the-mines","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Nvidia cryptocurrency card could be powerful enough to save gaming GPUs from the mines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/leaked-nvidia-cryptocurrency-card-could-be-powerful-enough-to-save-gaming-gpus-from-the-mines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Nvidia 170HX could offer an Ethereum hash rate way in excess of an RTX 3090 for less power.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The latest rumours point to a brand new Nvidia cryptocurrency mining processor that\u2019s capable of an Ethereum mining hash rate 164MH\/s. If you\u2019re not familiar with the hash rates of cryptocurrency mining, that make it an absolute whopper of a card\u2014the <a href=\" https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/nvidia-rtx-3090-review-founders-edition-benchmarks\/\" target=\"_blank\">GeForce RTX 3090<\/a> is somewhere in the region of 120-130MH\/s. Wild, right?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called the 170HX, says Twitter leaker 9550Pro, and it will feature 4480 CUDA Cores and run at 250W. Its secret, how it manages to out mine a beefier card in the 350W RTX 3090, is the choice of memory. There\u2019s just 8GB of it on the reported card but that 8GB is made up of HBM2e, the HBM in which literally stands for High Bandwidth Memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nvidia 170HX could offer an Ethereum hash rate way in excess of an RTX 3090 for less power. The latest rumours point to a brand new Nvidia cryptocurrency mining processor that\u2019s capable of an Ethereum mining hash rate 164MH\/s. If you\u2019re not familiar with the hash rates of cryptocurrency mining, that make it an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}