NVIDIA P102-100 GPU Spotted For Crypto - Has 3200 Shader Cores and 5GB

[LoadsaMoney]

One of the more amazing trends in 2017/2018 has got to be the rise in demand for anything crypto related. The entire hardware industry took a dive in it, from motherboards to graphics cards to even more efficient power supplies. Now, a new NVIDIA GPU has been spotted. Well, not entirely new, but reconfigured.

Nvidia seems to be putting a crypto version of an existing GPU on the market, the P102-100 is based on the same GP102 chip that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and GTX Titan Xp use. It, however, will be reconfigured, it'll get fewer memory channels, fewer shader cores and less memory. All this makes the crypto card cheaper to make and sell while retaining high hash rates. The GP102-100 card leaked originates from Inno3D and will have 3200 out of its 3840 shader cores activated.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/nv...for_crypto_has_3200_shader_cores_and_5gb.html

 

[KentMan]

If this is true, it could potentially make a lot of the AMD cards undesirable in Crypto mining i guess? as this things perf to watt ratio will be far far superior than to anything AMD has.

Which bodes well for people wanting AMD cards, second hand ones will flood the markets which will bring down prices of existing AMD Vega / Polaris cards, also the Nvidia Geforce range of cards will remain untouched and should probably drop in price as well.

Hopefully AMD follow suit and make a similar offering if its possible for them, to take the load off the gaming products and return the market to sensible levels of cost.

 

[mrbazmondo]

I wonder if you can SLI it with a normal gfx card to play games with.

 

[KentMan]

Just dug a bit deeper apparently these are going to be $800 USD each! seems a bit expensive to me, also miners buy cards with resale into the gaming market in mind.

imho these cards need to be like $500 USD Tops to entice any serious miners to use them, the first company to mass produce something that is significantly cheaper than buying gaming cards will be onto the winner, as most miners are looking at ROI first, warranty on these is a bit rubbish too.

If it was $500 USD it would turn the crypto market for GFX cards on its head, you would get 2 x 1060 levels of perf for not much more than the current price of 1 x 1060.

Also im fairly certain these cards could be used in other workloads if the crypto bubble burst, render farms and what not?

 

[humbug]

Miners are not going to buy these because they have knocked down coolers, memory and no display outputs.

Cryptocurrency is extremely volatile, Miners know its value could crash over night and when it does they sell the cards on, if that happens these cards are literally worthless, they cannot sell them to anyone.

 

[mrbazmondo]

TDP is still 250W, but with less on the board it might clock higher.

 

[200sols]

At that price and the reported hashrates its a non starter

 

[LoadsaMoney]

 

[ubersonic]

miners buy cards with resale into the gaming market in mind

Nope, this is one of those lies that's been repeated so much the uninitiated think it's true but in reality most miners run a card until it dies then chuck it in the bin regardless of warranty status.

If it was $500 USD it would turn the crypto market for GFX cards on its head

It wouldn't make much financial sense as it's essentially a 1080ti with no video output, they could just sell 1080ti cards instead and make more money.

 

[Rroff]

Nope, this is one of those lies that's been repeated so much the uninitiated think it's true but in reality most miners run a card until it dies then chuck it in the bin regardless of warranty status.

For hardcore miners yes - a good few that dabble or more casually into it tend to keep in mind the possible fallback of selling the card to reduce or offset any losses as a gaming card should it stop being possible to mine on that card (either due to difficulty or VRAM requirement, etc.) and/or the value plummet so they aren't making a profit.

 

[ubersonic]

For hardcore miners yes

Indeed, the people who care about resale value aren't actual miners just people who hear about mining, jump on the bandwagon then panic when they realize it's harder than they thought and sell up. The myth that actual miners care about resale is one of those I.T stories that has been told so much people don't realise it's nonsense.