# CMP.WIKI

> The community reference for the NVIDIA CMP 170HX (8 GB and 10 GB cards): unlocks, inference recipes, platforms, cooling and power, troubleshooting and test results. Every fact is credited to the person who posted it. Text is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

- Wiki home: https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Main_Page
- Lead section of every article in one file: https://cmp.wiki/llms-full.txt
- News: https://cmp.wiki/news/ (RSS: https://cmp.wiki/feed/, news sitemap: https://cmp.wiki/news-sitemap.xml)
- For software that reads this site (plain text, wikitext, search, data tables as JSON): https://cmp.wiki/wiki/CMP_Wiki:For_agents
- Data tables as daily JSON snapshots: https://cmp.wiki/data/index.json
- MCP server for AI agents (read-only, no login, Streamable HTTP): https://cmp.wiki/mcp (Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http cmpwiki https://cmp.wiki/mcp)
- Sitemaps: https://cmp.wiki/wp-sitemap.xml and https://cmp.wiki/sitemap-wiki/sitemap-index-cmpwiki.xml

## Site
- [CMP news](https://cmp.wiki/news/)
- [CMP 170HX tools](https://cmp.wiki/tools/)
- [Credits](https://cmp.wiki/credits/)
- [About](https://cmp.wiki/about/)

## Tools on the front door
- [CMP 170HX tools](https://cmp.wiki/tools/): the hub: Setup matrix, Will it fit, Card check, Prices, Ask the wiki and the Benchmark protocol
- [Setup matrix](https://cmp.wiki/setup/): pick card variant, count, memory, SMs, PCIe link, P2P and ECC; see which wiki recipes run and how fast, each speed labelled Measured, Estimated or Unknown
- [Will it fit](https://cmp.wiki/fit/): memory calculator: weights plus KV cache for a model, quant, context and users against your cards, every step of the arithmetic shown
- [Card check](https://cmp.wiki/check/): paste lspci, nvidia-smi and dmesg output; get the card, the unlock state, the PCIe link, the driver and what each Xid means, all in the browser, nothing uploaded
- [Prices](https://cmp.wiki/prices/): every reported CMP 170HX price point by date, charted from the wiki Price log
- [Ask the wiki](https://cmp.wiki/ask/): a question box that answers from the wiki pages and news posts with numbered sources (rate limited, Turnstile)

## News
- [CMP 170HX news, November 6 to 9, 2026: a new DeepSeek engine, ECC on 10 GB cards, VM reports](https://cmp.wiki/news/cmp-170hx-news-november-6-to-9-2026/) (2026-11-10): The newest CMP 170HX items: the Anemone engine for four cards, an ECC boot problem on some 10 GB cards, new prices and two virtual machine reports.
- [Full GLM-5.3 (753B) on eight CMP 170HX plus two Blackwells: recipe and repo published](https://cmp.wiki/news/glm-5-3-eight-cmp-170hx-two-blackwells/) (2026-11-06): A published recipe serves the full GLM-5.3 with a 524k context on eight CMP 170HX plus two RTX PRO 6000 Blackwells, building on cebeuq's eight-card recipe.
- [CMP 170HX 8 GB card floorsweep: gated, not dead, and fuse-locked at 64 GB](https://cmp.wiki/news/floorsweep-8gb-gated-not-dead-fuse-locked/) (2026-11-06): A read of seven 8 GB CMP 170HX cards finds about 80 GB physically latent but fuse-locked: 64 GB and 74 SMs stay the ceiling, and 96 GB is not supported.
- [CMP 170HX news, November 3 to 5, 2026: ECC without a patched driver, P2P behind switches](https://cmp.wiki/news/news-november-3-to-5-2026/) (2026-11-06): The newest CMP 170HX items: ECC shown on an 8 GB card without a patched driver, P2P behind PCIe switches, two hardware warnings and 3,000 USD cards.
- [vGPU for the CMP 170HX is ready for testing, with a new cmptools repo](https://cmp.wiki/news/vgpu-ready-for-testing/) (2026-11-05): The cmpunlocker maintainer asks for vGPU testers: the driver side is on the vGPU-and-others branch and a new cmptools repo manages the vGPU settings.
- [CMP 170HX news, week of November 3, 2026: NVLink, P2P, prices](https://cmp.wiki/news/news-week-of-november-3-2026/) (2026-11-03): The newest CMP 170HX items: a 10 GB NVLink rework, gpu-unlock 3.0 announced, new DeepSeek and Mistral runs, and 8 GB cards still offered at 3,350 USD.
- [CMP 170HX driver warning: nvidia-open 615.78.08 breaks cmpunlocker](https://cmp.wiki/news/driver-615-78-08-breaks-cmpunlocker/) (2026-11-03): On nvidia-open 615.78.08 the CMP 170HX unlock installs cleanly but cards drop out of nvidia-smi; owners report 615.71.09 as the version that works.
- [CMP 170HX 300 W VBIOS flash procedure published for the 8 GB card](https://cmp.wiki/news/300w-vbios-flash-procedure-8gb/) (2026-11-03): A tested procedure flashes the factory 300 W VBIOS onto 8 GB CMP 170HX cards, opening the undervolt range and raising the HBM clock to 1728 MHz.
- [cmpunlocker v0.5 for CMP 170HX: what it unlocks and what it does not](https://cmp.wiki/news/cmpunlocker-v0-5-what-it-unlocks/) (2026-11-03): cmpunlocker v0.5 brings the 8 GB card to 64 GB and the 10 GB card to 40 GB, adds 4 SMs and ECC, and still leaves Gen3, NVLink and 80 GB locked.
- [Fastest proven CMP 170HX recipes: GLM 5.3 Flash leads at 442 tok/s](https://cmp.wiki/news/fastest-proven-recipes/) (2026-11-03): Nine CMP 170HX recipes are Proven; GLM 5.3 Flash on four 8 GB cards leads at 442.1 tok/s, with seven owners reproducing it.
- [CMP 170HX 10 GB memory: 40 GB Proven, 48 GB Reported, 80 GB Contested](https://cmp.wiki/news/10gb-card-memory-40-48-80/) (2026-11-03): The 10 GB CMP 170HX unlocks to 40 GB, about one card in five reaches 48 GB, and 80 or 96 GB has not been made usable as of late October 2026.
- [CMP 170HX P2P and multi-card servers: what is proven so far](https://cmp.wiki/news/p2p-multi-card-servers/) (2026-11-03): BAR1 P2P between CMP 170HX cards is Proven on one root or switch, mailbox P2P is Proven since November 6, 2026 (updated), and a dual-socket server passed 504 of 504 checks.

## Start
- [Start here](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Start_here): This wiki collects what the cmpunlocker Discord has worked out about the CMP 170HX: how to unlock it, what to run on it, and how to keep it cool and...
- [Which card do I have](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Which_card_do_I_have): There are two production versions of the CMP 170HX: the 8 GB card and the 10 GB card.
- [CMP 170HX](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/CMP_170HX): The NVIDIA CMP 170HX is a cryptocurrency mining card built on GA100, the same die as the A100 data-center GPU. NVIDIA sold it in 2021 with most of...
- [8 GB card](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/8_GB_card): The 8 GB card is the CMP 170HX with PCI ID 10de:20c2 and SK hynix HBM2e.
- [10 GB card](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/10_GB_card): The 10 GB card is the CMP 170HX with PCI ID 10de:2082 and Samsung HBM2e.
- [Variant comparison](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Variant_comparison): The 8 GB card and the 10 GB card side by side.

## Unlocks
- [8 GB compute and HBM: limits and open questions](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/8_GB_compute_and_HBM:_limits_and_open_questions): All eight 8 GB lab cards report 74 SMs and 64 GiB after the existing unlock.
- [Cmpunlocker forks](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Cmpunlocker_forks): cmpunlocker (amoghmunikote) is the mainline.
- [Driver compatibility](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Driver_compatibility): This page answers one question: does NVIDIA driver X with cmpunlocker version Y work on the 8 GB and the 10 GB CMP 170HX? Each row is one driver...
- [Driver unlock](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Driver_unlock): cmpunlocker is the mainline unlock for the CMP 170HX, by Amogh Munikote (@_j3ns on Discord, GitHub amoghmunikote).
- [ECC](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/ECC): Software-based ECC landed in cmpunlocker v0.5 on 2026-10-04 and is credited to Amogh.
- [Flashing the 300 W VBIOS](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Flashing_the_300_W_VBIOS): Most 8 GB cards ship with VBIOS 92.00.67.00.01, the 250 W image.
- [Full SM unlock](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Full_SM_unlock): The stock card exposes 70 of 128 SMs.
- [Gen2 link retrain](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Gen2_link_retrain): The stock CMP 170HX links at PCIe Gen1. cmpunlocker raises it to Gen2 on both cards.
- [Kernel parameters and module options](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Kernel_parameters_and_module_options): Reference for every kernel command-line and nvidia module option that appears in the unlock work.
- [Memory unlock on the 10 GB card](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Memory_unlock_on_the_10_GB_card): The 8 GB card unlocks to a flat 64 GB (see Driver unlock).
- [NVLink](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/NVLink): NVLink is not publicly unlocked on the CMP 170HX, on either card.
- [P2P](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/P2P): GPU-to-GPU P2P works on the CMP 170HX with a patched driver: the mailbox path is Proven on both cards since the October builds, and BAR1 P2P is...
- [PCIe Gen3 on the 10 GB card](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/PCIe_Gen3_on_the_10_GB_card): 10 GB card only.
- [PCIe x16 capacitor mod](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/PCIe_x16_capacitor_mod): The CMP 170HX trains its PCIe link at x4 because the AC-coupling capacitors on 12 of its 16 lanes were never fitted at the factory.
- [Resizable BAR and BAR1 64 GB](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Resizable_BAR_and_BAR1_64_GB): The stock card exposes BAR1 at 64 MiB. cmpunlocker can resize it to 64 GB, which is what large-BAR GPU-to-GPU P2P uses.
- [RIR fuse burn](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/RIR_fuse_burn): This is a permanent, irreversible fuse write.
- [Unlock history: who found what, and when](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Unlock_history:_who_found_what,_and_when): A dated record of how the CMP 170HX unlock came about, from the card's launch in 2021 to the state at the end of October 2026, with credit for each...
- [Unlock internals: detailed research notes](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Unlock_internals:_detailed_research_notes): This page is for people working on the unlocks themselves.
- [Unlock internals: status and what is next](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Unlock_internals:_status_and_what_is_next): Current baseline: 64 GiB and 74 SMs on the eight 8 GB lab cards.
- [Unlocks](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Unlocks): CMP unlocks is the map of what the community has restored on the NVIDIA CMP 170HX, a GA100 card that NVIDIA shipped with most of its features clamped...
- [VBIOS and firmware](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/VBIOS_and_firmware): The 170HX VBIOS is signed, and the memory/compute unlock does not come from flashing a modified VBIOS; it comes from the driver patch (cmpunlocker).

## Recipes
- [All recipes](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/All_recipes): Every recipe on the wiki: a model running on CMP 170HX cards, with the settings and the numbers.
- [Benchmarks](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Benchmarks): CMP benchmarks: throughput numbers for the CMP 170HX in two tables: first one row per recipe page, generated from the recipe infoboxes, then every...
- [DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 on 3x 8 GB (PP3 DSpark)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4_Flash_0731_on_3x_8_GB_(PP3_DSpark)): DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (about 284B total, 13B active) on three 64 GB cards, served by vLLM with pipeline parallel 3 and DSpark speculative decoding.
- [DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 on 4x 8 GB (allover326 PP4 DSpark)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4_Flash_0731_on_4x_8_GB_(allover326_PP4_DSpark)): The reference recipe for the first DeepSeek V4 Flash checkpoint, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (about 284B total, 13B active), not the later V4.1 (see...
- [DeepSeek V4 Flash pruned on 4x 10 GB](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4_Flash_pruned_on_4x_10_GB): DeepSeek V4 Flash on four 10 GB cards with about 37 GB usable each.
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash heretic on 4x 8 GB](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_heretic_on_4x_8_GB): Morrowmake's recipe for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on four CMP 170HX, unchanged except for a few .env lines, with pqhaz's heretic patch written into the...
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 2x 8 GB (Project Maya)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_on_2x_8_GB_(Project_Maya)): Most of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash does not fit on two cards, so this setup keeps the hot experts and KV in VRAM and moves the rest between host RAM and...
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 4x 8 GB (alanoo fidelity build)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_on_4x_8_GB_(alanoo_fidelity_build)): A fidelity-first configuration of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 4x 8 GB (GNmac), aimed at agentic and concurrent work.
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 4x 8 GB (CurtisAccelerate TC-MoE)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_on_4x_8_GB_(CurtisAccelerate_TC-MoE)): A weight-selection recipe plus benchmark record for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on four 64 GB cards at 140 W on a dual-socket Broadwell host with no...
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 4x 8 GB (GNmac with copy fix and faster prefill)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_on_4x_8_GB_(GNmac_with_copy_fix_and_faster_prefill)): GNmac-lab's DeepSeek V4.1 Flash recipe for four 8 GB cards, release 1.2.0 (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 4x 8 GB (GNmac)), with three changes from the lab...
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 4x 8 GB (GNmac)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_on_4x_8_GB_(GNmac)): DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on four 64 GB cards with vLLM and a patch stack for sm_80, an OpenAI-compatible API with tools, reasoning and images, and up...
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 4x 8 GB (Morrowmake)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_on_4x_8_GB_(Morrowmake)): DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on four 64 GB cards with tool calls, reasoning, images and the checkpoint's own DSpark drafter.
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 4x 8 GB plus RTX PRO 6000 (ExLlamaV3 TP5)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_on_4x_8_GB_plus_RTX_PRO_6000_(ExLlamaV3_TP5)): DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 at the 3.5 bpw EXL3 quant with a full 1,048,576-token FP16 context, served by tensor parallel over four unlocked CMP 170HX...
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 5x 8 GB (PP5 full residency)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_on_5x_8_GB_(PP5_full_residency)): DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on five 64 GB cards with every expert in VRAM, served by a fork of wtdcode/vllm-backport with pipeline parallel 5 and a...
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 6x 8 GB (Deepinfer-SM80 TP2 x PP3)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_on_6x_8_GB_(Deepinfer-SM80_TP2_x_PP3)): Deepinfer-SM80 ports the ideas of DeepSeek's DeepInfer (Blackwell-only kernels) to Ampere as two vLLM patches plus 30 drop-in Python, Triton and...
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 6x 8 GB (TP6)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_on_6x_8_GB_(TP6)): A deployment record for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on six 64 GB cards at tensor-parallel 6, with the DSpark drafter at K=5, including a full snapshot...
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 8x 8 GB (Deepinfer-SM80 TP4 x PP2)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_on_8x_8_GB_(Deepinfer-SM80_TP4_x_PP2)): The full DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 checkpoint on eight 64 GB cards with the Deepinfer-SM80 patches, at TP4 x PP2.
- [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 8x 8 GB (Zanooda PP8)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4.1_Flash_on_8x_8_GB_(Zanooda_PP8)): A complete serving recipe for DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on eight 64 GB cards with vLLM pipeline parallel 8: a 20-patch series on the open vLLM PR...
- [Engines](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Engines): The CMP 170HX is a GA100 die with compute capability 8.0 (sm_80, the A100 family), 64 GB of HBM after the unlock (Driver unlock), no NVLink and PCIe...
- [GLM 5.2 on 3x 10 GB (llama.cpp CPU offload)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.2_on_3x_10_GB_(llama.cpp_CPU_offload)): GLM-5.2 at Q4 on three 10 GB cards at the 40 GB profile, with most of the model left in host RAM and DDR4.
- [GLM 5.2 on 8x 8 GB](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.2_on_8x_8_GB): In late July 2026 DeeJay rented a server of RedPandaMining's unlocked 8 GB cards (64 GB each) for most of a day to see how GLM-5.2 runs on the CMP...
- [GLM 5.3 Flash on 2x 8 GB (ExLlamaV3 layer split)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.3_Flash_on_2x_8_GB_(ExLlamaV3_layer_split)): GLM-5.3-Flash entirely in HBM on two 64 GB cards, using turboderp's ExLlamaV3 and his 3.05 bpw EXL3 quant, with a DFlash2 drafter (converted locally...
- [GLM 5.3 Flash on 2x 8 GB (ExLlamaV3 TP2)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.3_Flash_on_2x_8_GB_(ExLlamaV3_TP2)): GLM-5.3-Flash entirely in HBM on two 64 GB cards, as the layer-split EXL3 build (GLM 5.3 Flash on 2x 8 GB (ExLlamaV3 layer split)) extended with...
- [GLM 5.3 Flash on 2x 8 GB (Project Maya)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.3_Flash_on_2x_8_GB_(Project_Maya)): Project Maya is a self-tuning inference engine with a web chat and OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs.
- [GLM 5.3 Flash on 3x 8 GB](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.3_Flash_on_3x_8_GB): GLM-5.3-Flash on three cards, leaving the fourth free for image generation, mining or rental.
- [GLM 5.3 Flash on 4x 8 GB](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.3_Flash_on_4x_8_GB): The community's reference build for four cards: GLM-5.3-Flash in W4A16 on Morrowmake's Ampere vLLM fork, with a DFlash2 speculative drafter, tool...
- [GLM 5.3 Flash on 4x 8 GB (kaka86mm EXL3 + Marlin sidecar + DFlash2)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.3_Flash_on_4x_8_GB_(kaka86mm_EXL3_%2B_Marlin_sidecar_%2B_DFlash2)): GLM-5.3-Flash on four 8 GB cards unlocked to 64 GB, with kaka86mm's deployment overlay for hyd998877's EXL3 vLLM fork: EXL3 4 bpw weights, a Marlin...
- [GLM 5.3 Flash on 8x 8 GB (promisezackr PP8 NVFP4 DFlash2)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.3_Flash_on_8x_8_GB_(promisezackr_PP8_NVFP4_DFlash2)): promisezackr's patch set serves GLM-5.3-Flash (320B MoE, 18B active, 1M context) on eight 64 GB cards at PCIe Gen2 x4 with no P2P: vLLM pipeline...
- [GLM 5.3 on 8x 8 GB (cebeuq glm53-cmp170hx-recipe)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.3_on_8x_8_GB_(cebeuq_glm53-cmp170hx-recipe)): cebeuq's recipe serves the full GLM-5.3 with a 524,288-token context on eight unlocked 8 GB cards at TP2 x PP4.
- [GLM 5.3 on 8x 8 GB (Int4-Int8Mix PP8)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.3_on_8x_8_GB_(Int4-Int8Mix_PP8)): The full GLM-5.3 on eight cards with plain pipeline parallel and the model's MTP head.
- [GLM 5.3 on 8x 8 GB (vllm-170hx-glm5)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.3_on_8x_8_GB_(vllm-170hx-glm5)): The full GLM-5.3 (744B total, 40B active) on eight to ten 64 GB cards under pipeline parallel, with the DFlash2 speculative drafter and a 1M-token...
- [GLM 5.3 on 8x 8 GB plus 2x RTX PRO 6000 (vLLM TP2 x PP5)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/GLM_5.3_on_8x_8_GB_plus_2x_RTX_PRO_6000_(vLLM_TP2_x_PP5)): The full GLM-5.3 with a 524,288-token context, served across two hosts.
- [Image, video, voice and training](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Image,_video,_voice_and_training): Owners also use the unlocked CMP 170HX for image and video diffusion (mostly in ComfyUI), for voice and audio models, and for some training.
- [Laguna-S-2.1 on 2x 10 GB](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Laguna-S-2.1_on_2x_10_GB): Laguna-S-2.1 in NVFP4 GGUF on two 10 GB cards, split evenly, at 131,072 tokens of context. bigfoot asked for working setups on 10 GB cards...
- [Llama.cpp on CMP cards](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Llama.cpp_on_CMP_cards): llama.cpp runs on the CMP 170HX out of the box and is the easiest engine to start with, but on these cards it is clearly slower than vLLM or SGLang...
- [MiMo V2.6 Flash on 4x 8 GB](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/MiMo_V2.6_Flash_on_4x_8_GB): Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL on four 64 GB cards: the ProCreations NVFP4 checkpoint, tensor parallel 4, the full 1M-token context, MiMo's own DFlash...
- [Mistral Large 4 on 8x 8 GB (llama.cpp lab trial)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Mistral_Large_4_on_8x_8_GB_(llama.cpp_lab_trial)): Mistral Large 4 ("Le Chonk", 1T total, about 52B active) runs on eight 64 GB cards with llama.cpp, but only as a trial: it works, and it is far too...
- [Parallelism over the PCIe link](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Parallelism_over_the_PCIe_link): The CMP 170HX has no working NVLink, so every multi-card setup talks over PCIe: Gen1 x4 on a stock card, Gen2 x4 after the Gen2 link retrain, Gen2...
- [Quantization on the 170HX](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Quantization_on_the_170HX): The CMP 170HX is sm_80: it has INT8 and INT4 tensor cores and BF16/FP16, but no FP8 or FP4 hardware.
- [Qwen3.6 27B and 35B-A3B on one card (July and August 2026)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.6_27B_and_35B-A3B_on_one_card_(July_and_August_2026)): Before Qwen3.8 arrived, Qwen3.6 27B (dense) and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (MoE, about 3B active) were the models most owners ran on one unlocked card.
- [Qwen3.6 27B on 1x 10 GB (llama.cpp MTP)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.6_27B_on_1x_10_GB_(llama.cpp_MTP)): Qwen3.6-27B from unsloth's MTP GGUF on one 10 GB card at the 40 GB profile, unlocked with cmpunlocker, at PCIe Gen1 x4 (no mod yet) and 250 W maximum...
- [Qwen3.6 27B on 1x 10 GB (SGLang W8A8)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.6_27B_on_1x_10_GB_(SGLang_W8A8)): A published benchmark of Qwen3.6-27B (W8A8) on SGLang 0.5.16 on one 10 GB card at 40 GiB, at a 250 W limit, with and without MTP. The repository...
- [Qwen3.8 27B on 1x 8 GB (W4A16 vLLM)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_27B_on_1x_8_GB_(W4A16_vLLM)): The dense Qwen3.8-27B in W4A16 on one 64 GB card under vLLM, from Miséricorde's r/LocalLLM post "Qwen3.8-27B W4A16 on one 64 GB CMP 170HX: 160+/70+...
- [Qwen3.8 Flash Next on 1x 8 GB (ElectroHobo 3 bpw)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_Flash_Next_on_1x_8_GB_(ElectroHobo_3_bpw)): Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on one 64 GB card with the full 262,144-token context.
- [Qwen3.8 Flash Next on 1x 8 GB (iIIusi0n SSD PLE)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_Flash_Next_on_1x_8_GB_(iIIusi0n_SSD_PLE)): Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on one 64 GB card with only 15 GiB of host RAM: a downstream vLLM patch keeps the 95.37 GiB BF16 PLE (n-gram) table on SSD and...
- [Qwen3.8 Flash Next on 2x 8 GB (DUFRelic PP2)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_Flash_Next_on_2x_8_GB_(DUFRelic_PP2)): A single-README production recipe for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on two cards unlocked to 64 GiB and 74 SMs, under stock vLLM v0.30.0 with zankich's INT4-PLE...
- [Qwen3.8 Flash Next on 2x 8 GB (ElectroHobo W4A16 TP2)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_Flash_Next_on_2x_8_GB_(ElectroHobo_W4A16_TP2)): Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in W4A16 on two 64 GB cards with inco.ai's DFlash 2 drafter, full 262,144-token context, vision, reasoning and tool calls, and up...
- [Qwen3.8 Flash Next on 2x 8 GB (mannydelrio PP2)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_Flash_Next_on_2x_8_GB_(mannydelrio_PP2)): An uncensored Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on two stock 8 GB-variant cards (PCIe Gen2 x4, no capacitor mod, no P2P) in a Ryzen desktop with only 16 GB of RAM....
- [Qwen3.8 Flash Next on 2x 8 GB (Morrowmake EXL3)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_Flash_Next_on_2x_8_GB_(Morrowmake_EXL3)): Morrowmake's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next recipe on two cards with his vLLM fork's EXL3 path (release 1.0.0, engine tag qwen38-recipe-1.0.0).
- [Qwen3.8 Flash Next on 2x 8 GB (Plean PP2)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_Flash_Next_on_2x_8_GB_(Plean_PP2)): Plean's setup for Qwen3.8 Flash Next on two 64 GB cards: vLLM pipeline parallel 2, MTP speculative decoding, and the full BF16 PLE (n-gram) table...
- [Qwen3.8 Flash Next on 2x 8 GB (Qwen-Flash-SM80, GDS TEP2)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_Flash_Next_on_2x_8_GB_(Qwen-Flash-SM80,_GDS_TEP2)): Qwen-Flash-SM80 is a vLLM runtime for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in NVFP4 on two 64 GB cards.
- [Qwen3.8 Flash Next on 2x 8 GB (vektorprime PP2)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_Flash_Next_on_2x_8_GB_(vektorprime_PP2)): A build recipe and vLLM patch set that serves an AWQ INT4 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on two 64 GB cards with pipeline parallel 2 plus PLE CPU offload, a...
- [Qwen3.8 Flash Next on 3x 8 GB (clee PP3)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_Flash_Next_on_3x_8_GB_(clee_PP3)): Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on three unmodded 64 GB cards (x4 links, no P2P) with pipeline parallel 3, a 1M-token context and a 7.36M-token KV pool, on a...
- [Qwen3.8 Flash Next on 3x or 4x 8 GB (zebgop-ops FP8 PP)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_Flash_Next_on_3x_or_4x_8_GB_(zebgop-ops_FP8_PP)): The official FP8 checkpoint of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next served with vLLM pipeline parallel, MTP speculative decoding and prefix caching all at once, on...
- [Qwen3.8 Flash Next on 4x 8 GB](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Qwen3.8_Flash_Next_on_4x_8_GB): Qwen3.8 Flash Next on four cards in one docker-compose file, on the wtdcode/vllm-backport image, with only 32 GB of host RAM: the n-gram (PLE) table...
- [Recipe finder](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Recipe_finder): Find a recipe that fits your cards.
- [Recipes](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Recipes): A recipe is a model running on CMP 170HX cards with the exact settings and the numbers that came out.
- [Running one model across two hosts (100 GbE, RDMA, vLLM and SGLang)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Running_one_model_across_two_hosts_(100_GbE,_RDMA,_vLLM_and_SGLang)): Two hosts can serve one model when each host runs whole pipeline stages and only a small hand-off crosses the network.
- [Speculative decoding on the 170HX](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Speculative_decoding_on_the_170HX): Speculative decoding lets a small drafter propose several tokens that the full model then checks in one forward pass; every accepted token saves a...
- [VLLM on sm 80: known bugs and patches](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/VLLM_on_sm_80:_known_bugs_and_patches): The CMP 170HX is a GA100 card, compute capability sm_80.

## Platforms
- [All platforms](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/All_platforms): Every platform report: boards and servers people ran CMP 170HX cards in, with the settings that mattered.
- [ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/ASRock_Rack_ROMED8-2T): A single-socket SP3 board with seven x16 slots, often named as the turnkey EPYC board for multi-card builds.
- [ASUS P9X79 WS](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/ASUS_P9X79_WS): Fernando Delfini could not unlock a card on his X79 WS board at first and asked whether the platform's MMIO limits were the cause.
- [ASUS Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/ASUS_Pro_WS_WRX80E-SAGE_SE_WIFI): ASUS's sWRX8 workstation board for Threadripper Pro.
- [ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/ASUS_Pro_WS_WRX90E-SAGE_SE): GhostInTheDatacenter has the same BAR1 problem on an ASUS WRX90 board as Trust Inter on his WRX80E, with no fix found; his agent ended up suggesting...
- [ASUS X99-E WS](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/ASUS_X99-E_WS): matstatman runs four cards on a used ASUS X99-E WS (PCIe Gen3) with an E5-2695 v4 (15 USD) and DDR4 UDIMM. Source: @matstatman, 2026-10-07Source...
- [ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/ASUS_Z10PE-D8_WS): This page is one owner's report, nothing more: GitHub user ahnguyen17 posted it as issue 2 on the Consensus-Protocol research wiki's repository on...
- [BAR1 64 GB on ESXi](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/BAR1_64_GB_on_ESXi): How to give CMP 170HX cards that VMware ESXi passes through to a Linux guest a real 64 GB BAR1.
- [Consumer motherboards](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Consumer_motherboards): What works on desktop, HEDT and workstation boards: which BIOS settings matter, how to split lanes, and how many cards fit.
- [Dell OptiPlex 7040m](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Dell_OptiPlex_7040m): Asked whether anyone had run the card as an eGPU, GlobalApathy described his: a Dell OptiPlex 7040m micro PC (16 GB single stick), an M.2-to-OcuLink...
- [Dell PowerEdge R720](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Dell_PowerEdge_R720): Nobody has reported a CMP 170HX in an R720 yet. mlx4 used 32 GB LRDIMMs in one and wondered whether a 170HX would fit.
- [Dell PowerEdge R730](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Dell_PowerEdge_R730): ElectroHobo had 170HX cards and V100s in the same Dell R730 under Proxmox while first testing the 170HX, in separate VMs rather than one model across...
- [Dell PowerEdge R740](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Dell_PowerEdge_R740): No full CMP 170HX result on an R740 has been posted yet.
- [Dell Precision T5810](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Dell_Precision_T5810): Shudza suggested a T5810 instead of Chinese X99 boards. kellertreppe123 owns one with a CMP: Source: @shudza, 2026-10-07 you need unusual cables just...
- [Gen2 by platform](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Gen2_by_platform): Gen2 doubles the PCIe link rate of a CMP 170HX from 2.5 to 5 GT/s, and whether it trains depends far more on the host than on the card.
- [Gigabyte G292-Z20](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Gigabyte_G292-Z20): A 2U single-socket EPYC GPU server that takes 8 cards.
- [Gigabyte G481-HA0](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Gigabyte_G481-HA0): RedPandaMining runs all his cards at x16 in a G481-HA0 bought for about 500 USD with dual Xeon Gold 6152, 384 GB DDR4-2666 and 4 TB NVMe.
- [Gigabyte MZ31-AR0](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Gigabyte_MZ31-AR0): Finishtilt14 runs CMPs on an MZ31-AR0.
- [Gigabyte MZ32-AR0](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Gigabyte_MZ32-AR0): A single-socket SP3 EPYC board with 16 DIMM slots. zorg33 runs 14x 8 GB CMP 170HX on one (photo posted).
- [Huananzhi H12D-8D](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Huananzhi_H12D-8D): A Chinese single-socket EPYC (SP3) board (华南金牌 H12D-8D).
- [Huananzhi X99-F8](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Huananzhi_X99-F8): Miséricorde runs two cards on a Huananzhi X99-F8 (DDR4) and calls the Huanan boards the best base for two 8 GB cards: cheap, PCIe 3.0, NVMe, working...
- [Hyve Edge Metal G10](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Hyve_Edge_Metal_G10): port00 has two of these servers.
- [Large rigs (8 or more cards)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Large_rigs_(8_or_more_cards)): Several members run eight or more CMP 170HX cards from one host, and a few run 16 to 45.
- [Minisforum MS-01](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Minisforum_MS-01): A small Intel workstation with the cards on an external PLX 88096 switch board.
- [Octominer X12 Ultra builds](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Octominer_X12_Ultra_builds): Octominer mining cases house, power and cool a row of GPUs, which makes them a ready-made frame for passive CMP 170HX cards.
- [Operating systems and kernels](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Operating_systems_and_kernels): Which operating systems, kernels and driver versions people run unlocked CMP 170HX cards on, and what broke.
- [PCIe switch boards (PEX88096, PEX88064, PEX8747, PLX8749)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/PCIe_switch_boards_(PEX88096,_PEX88064,_PEX8747,_PLX8749)): A PCIe switch board takes one host link, usually Gen4 x16, and fans it out to several cards.
- [Platforms](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Platforms): Which motherboards, servers and hosts people run CMP 170HX cards on, and what worked on each.
- [Proxmox Gen2 passthrough](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Proxmox_Gen2_passthrough): Under Proxmox (QEMU/KVM with VFIO) an unlocked CMP 170HX gets its 64 GB inside a VM, but the PCIe Gen2 link does not come up by itself.
- [Risers and bifurcation](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Risers_and_bifurcation): How cards get connected when the board has too few slots, the wrong slot widths, or slots too close together: riser cables, M.2 and OcuLink adapters...
- [Server BIOS setup](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Server_BIOS_setup): How to get a CMP 170HX to PCIe Gen2 and a 64 GB BAR1 on a server, and what to check when it does not happen.
- [Supermicro H12DSG-O-CPU](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Supermicro_H12DSG-O-CPU): The reference box for Server BIOS setup: 8 cards, all at Gen2 x16 with a 64 GB BAR1, on bare metal.
- [Supermicro SYS-1028GQ-TRT](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Supermicro_SYS-1028GQ-TRT): A 1U dual-socket Supermicro server on the X10DGQ board that takes four double-width GPUs lying flat.
- [Supermicro SYS-4028GR-TRT2](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Supermicro_SYS-4028GR-TRT2): A 4U dual-socket GPU server with 10 GPU slots, all on CPU1 behind two PCIe 3.0 switches.
- [Supermicro X11SPA-TF](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Supermicro_X11SPA-TF): djpandaman used this workstation board for multi-card testing before deploying his builds, and called it "kind of trash". Source: @djpandaman...
- [Tyan S8030GM2NE](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Tyan_S8030GM2NE): djpandaman runs a Tyan S8030GM2NE with an EPYC 7R13 (48 cores, ex-datacenter stock) and 256 GB DDR4; CPU and board cost about 850 USD together.
- [Virtual machines and passthrough](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Virtual_machines_and_passthrough): Running CMP 170HX cards inside a virtual machine works, with more moving parts than bare metal.

## Cooling and power
- [ASRock PG-1600G](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/ASRock_PG-1600G): The ASRock PG-1600G is a 1600 W ATX power supply, not a motherboard.
- [Blowers](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Blowers): A blower (a centrifugal or "turbine" fan) fixed to the intake end of the card is the most common way to air-cool a CMP 170HX outside a server chassis.
- [Chassis builds](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Chassis_builds): Two cards fit in most desktops with a shroud and a pair of fans.
- [Cooling and power](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Cooling_and_power): The CMP 170HX is a passive data-center card.
- [Disassembly and cleaning](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Disassembly_and_cleaning): Ex-mining CMP 170HX cards usually arrive dirty inside, with stock paste gone hard and thermal pads sometimes missing, even when the shroud and the...
- [Fans and ducts](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Fans_and_ducts): The CMP 170HX has no fan of its own.
- [P-states and idle power](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/P-states_and_idle_power): A stock CMP 170HX idles at about 30 to 45 W per card (about 27 W on one 10 GB card), and more with a model loaded.
- [Power supplies and cabling](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Power_supplies_and_cabling): The CMP 170HX takes all its power through one EPS12V socket.
- [Printable shrouds and ducts](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Printable_shrouds_and_ducts): The CMP 170HX is a passive card: an air-cooled card needs a shroud, duct, plenum or housing that forces air through its fin stack.
- [Thermal interface: paste, pads and phase-change](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Thermal_interface:_paste,_pads_and_phase-change): The GA100 die and its HBM2e stacks on the CMP 170HX sit under an integrated heat spreader (IHS), so the card has two thermal interfaces in series: a...
- [Thermal limits](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Thermal_limits): The CMP 170HX runs hot for its power, and it has two temperatures that matter: the GPU core and the HBM memory.
- [Undervolting and power limits](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Undervolting_and_power_limits): Two levers decide how much power a CMP 170HX burns: the power cap, which every card has, and the undervolt (a V/F offset), which only some VBIOS...
- [Undervolting guide: where it came from](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Undervolting_guide:_where_it_came_from): Where the community's undervolting guidance came from, in date order.
- [Water cooling](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Water_cooling): Water is the quiet option.

## Troubleshooting
- [Card failure rates and longevity](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Card_failure_rates_and_longevity): How many CMP 170HX cards arrive bad, fail the 64 GB unlock or die in service is one of the most argued questions on the Discord.
- [Card not detected or BAR allocation fails](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Card_not_detected_or_BAR_allocation_fails): This page covers a CMP 170HX that does not show up, shows up in the wrong state (missing from nvidia-smi, wrong PCIe link width or speed), or cannot...
- [Dead ends: what was tried and did not work](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Dead_ends:_what_was_tried_and_did_not_work): Things owners tried on the CMP 170HX (and a few relatives) that did not work, one line each, grouped by area.
- [DeepSeek V4 and V4.1: tool-call leaks, loops and crashes](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/DeepSeek_V4_and_V4.1:_tool-call_leaks,_loops_and_crashes): DeepSeek V4 Flash (the 0731 checkpoint) and V4.1 Flash, served with the sm_80 vLLM forks on the CMP 170HX, share a family of agentic failures: tool...
- [Driver and unlock failures](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Driver_and_unlock_failures): If a CMP 170HX still shows 8 GB or 10 GB after the unlock, or is missing from nvidia-smi, check four things first: use driver 615.71.09 and not...
- [HW Power Brake (PWRBRK)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/HW_Power_Brake_(PWRBRK)): PWRBRK# is an optional PCIe sideband signal on edge pin B30 that lets a platform force a GPU into an emergency low-power state.
- [Instability under load](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Instability_under_load): This page covers a CMP 170HX that works at idle but crashes, drops off the bus, throttles or returns wrong output under load.
- [Known bad combinations](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Known_bad_combinations): Combinations that failed for at least one person, with what happened and what worked instead.
- [Memory errors and ECC](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Memory_errors_and_ECC): This page covers memory faults on the CMP 170HX: what they look like, how to test a card, how people work around bad regions, what the ECC added in...
- [Power and cabling warnings](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Power_and_cabling_warnings): This page lists every community report of hardware that burned, melted, blew, shorted, shut down or arrived damaged, with the exact failure as...
- [Recovery](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Recovery): How people got unresponsive cards and hosts working again, from the cheapest step to the most drastic, what cannot be undone, and what board-level...
- [Troubleshooting](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Troubleshooting): Start here when a CMP 170HX does not do what it should.
- [Verifying an unlock](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Verifying_an_unlock): An install that reports success can still leave the stock driver running.
- [Xid 31 and the reserved top of VRAM](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Xid_31_and_the_reserved_top_of_VRAM): Xid 31 is the NVIDIA driver's GPU memory page fault: the MMU refused a memory access.
- [Xid errors](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Xid_errors): An Xid is an error code the NVIDIA kernel driver writes to the kernel log when a GPU faults.

## Tools
- [170hx-rir-tool](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/170hx-rir-tool): 170hx-rir-tool reads the GA100 fuse block and can permanently burn RIR (Redundancy Information Row) records.
- [170tune](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/170tune): 170tune is a tuning and qualification harness for the CMP 170HX: SM clock ceiling and undervolt (clock offset), live HBM memory clock, DRAM timings...
- [Benchmark protocol](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Benchmark_protocol): One way to measure a CMP 170HX inference setup, so that numbers from different people can be compared.
- [Cmp-170hx-rir-burn-util](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Cmp-170hx-rir-burn-util): cmp-170hx-rir-burn-util (it calls itself cmp170hx-rir-gen3) is an all-in-one tool for the 10 GB CMP 170HX (10de:2082).
- [Cmp170hx-testsuite](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Cmp170hx-testsuite): cmp170hx-testsuite is an acceptance test suite for unlocked CMP 170HX cards (64 GB on the 8 GB card 10de:20c2, 40 GB on the 10 GB card 10de:2082).
- [Gds-nvme-patch](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Gds-nvme-patch): gds-nvme-patch restores NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (cuFile and nvidia-fs, direct NVMe-to-VRAM transfers) on Linux kernels where NVIDIA's own NVMe patch...
- [Gpcprobe](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Gpcprobe): gpcprobe reads a GA100 card's floorsweep fuses and its InfoROM black box without touching the card's state.
- [Hbmmon](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Hbmmon): hbmmon is an nvtop-style terminal monitor for the CMP 170HX that shows each HBM stack separately: its temperature, vendor, density, date code and...
- [Llm-inference-bench](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Llm-inference-bench): llm-inference-bench measures an LLM server's prefill and decode throughput over a grid of concurrency and context lengths, against vLLM, SGLang or...
- [Llm-visuals](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Llm-visuals): llm-visuals is a live terminal dashboard for a local inference server.
- [Mmapeak](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Mmapeak): mmapeak is a small CUDA benchmark that measures peak tensor-core throughput for each data type.
- [Monitoring](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Monitoring): What to watch on a running CMP 170HX and which tools show it.
- [Testing and burn-in](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Testing_and_burn-in): How to find out whether a CMP 170HX is healthy: after buying it (Acceptance checklist), after an unlock or driver change (Verifying an unlock covers...
- [Tools](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Tools): Software people in the cmpunlocker Discord use to inspect, test, tune and monitor CMP 170HX cards.

## Hardware variants
- [32 GB cards (subsystem 10de:1586)](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/32_GB_cards_(subsystem_10de:1586)): Some cards sold as 8 GB CMP 170HX cards unlock to 32 GB, not 64 GB. They report the 8 GB card's device ID 10de:20c2, but PCI subsystem 10de:1586...
- [CMP 90HX unlock hub](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/CMP_90HX_unlock_hub): The CMP 90HX is not a CMP 170HX. It is a GA102 card, the same chip family as the RTX 3080 and 3090, with 10 GB of GDDR6X on a 320-bit bus, and it is...
- [Compute, data types and missing features](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Compute,_data_types_and_missing_features): The CMP 170HX is a GA100 part, the A100's sm_80 architecture with fewer SMs enabled: 70 SMs on a standard unlock (more with the Full SM unlock).
- [Floorsweep read of the 8 GB card: gated versus defective partitions](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Floorsweep_read_of_the_8_GB_card:_gated_versus_defective_partitions): The 8 GB card's disabled memory partitions and compute clusters are software-gated, not all physically dead, but the gate that would re-enable them...
- [Fuses and floorsweep maps](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Fuses_and_floorsweep_maps): Every CMP 170HX carries a full GA100 die with parts of it switched off at the factory.
- [Odd variants and engineering samples](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Odd_variants_and_engineering_samples): Most cards sold as a CMP 170HX are one of the two production versions, the 8 GB card and the 10 GB card (Which card do I have).
- [Other CMP cards and other NVIDIA GPUs](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Other_CMP_cards_and_other_NVIDIA_GPUs): Scope.
- [The 10 GB card: provenance and the 80 GB question](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/The_10_GB_card:_provenance_and_the_80_GB_question): The 10 GB card (device 10de:2082, Samsung HBM on five active stacks) unlocks to 40 GB. From July to early October 2026 owners and developers tried to...

## Buying
- [Acceptance checklist](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Acceptance_checklist): What to do when a card arrives, in order, so you can keep it with confidence or send it back inside the return window with evidence.
- [Alibaba Trade Assurance, cancellations and disputes](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Alibaba_Trade_Assurance,_cancellations_and_disputes): Alibaba's Trade Assurance holds a buyer's payment until the order is delivered and gives a dispute route when a seller does not ship.
- [Alternatives at these prices](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Alternatives_at_these_prices): As CMP 170HX prices rose from about $1,200 in late July 2026 to about $2,300-2,500 by late September, members kept asking what else the money buys...
- [Buying](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Buying): Every CMP 170HX on the market is a used ex-mining card.
- [Buying from China as a foreigner](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Buying_from_China_as_a_foreigner): Members outside China who bought CMP 170HX cards, or tried to, straight from Chinese marketplaces, agents and forwarders posted what worked and what...
- [How the 170HX compares](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/How_the_170HX_compares): Members compared the unlocked CMP 170HX with what a buyer would otherwise consider: the RTX 3090, the A100, the DGX Spark, Apple's Mac Studio, and...
- [Price history and market](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Price_history_and_market): Prices for the CMP 170HX as members reported them on the Discord, each with the date it was posted.
- [Price history, July to October 2026](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Price_history,_July_to_October_2026): Dated prices for the CMP 170HX as members posted them on the Discord, from the weeks before the unlock went public (early July 2026) to early October...
- [Price log](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Price_log): Every CMP 170HX price that members reported on the Discord, one row per report, at the date it was posted and credited to the member who posted it.
- [Seller history](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Seller_history): Seller history collects what members of the cmpunlocker Discord reported about named sellers of CMP 170HX cards and related parts from 2026-07-19 to...

## Help and contributing
- [Board how-to](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Board_how-to): The board at cmp.wiki/board is where testing tasks and ongoing work live.
- [Contributing](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Contributing): CMP Wiki is written by the people running CMP 170HX cards.
- [Glossary](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Glossary): Terms you will meet on the Discord and on this wiki, in plain words.
- [Press and coverage](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Press_and_coverage): Press articles, videos, Reddit threads and Telegram posts about the CMP 170HX unlock, from a Russian resale channel mocking the news in late June...
- [Reference library](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Reference_library): The guides, reviews, schematics, papers, talks, research notes and benchmark sites that members point newcomers and researchers to, with what each...
- [Rumours and claims to verify](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Rumours_and_claims_to_verify): Claims made on the cmpunlocker Discord that nobody has reproduced, and claims that were checked and turned out to be false.
- [Status taxonomy](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Status_taxonomy): Every recipe, platform report and unlock carries one status badge, and any single fact on any page may carry one too ({{Status|Theory}}).

## More articles
- [Main Page](https://cmp.wiki/wiki/Main_Page): CMP Wiki collects what the cmpunlocker community has worked out about the CMP 170HX, the 8 GB and the 10 GB card side by side: unlocks, recipes...