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Aug 5, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Unlocking 80 GB Memory on NVIDIA CMP 170HX: 31× Performance Gain and 20× Price Surge

The article details how researchers bypassed OTP and firmware locks on the NVIDIA CMP 170HX mining GPU, expanding its memory from 10 GB to up to 80 GB, boosting FP32 performance from about 0.39 TFLOPS to roughly 12.2 TFLOPS (≈31×), while discussing benchmark results, stability limits, and the resulting price explosion.