CMP 170HX mining card modified to function as an A100-80G, delivering 85.9 FP16 TFLOPS vs 72.5 on retail A100 with 80GB usable for inference
Read the original at www.reddit.com→Kate's writeup is wild. The 8GB CMP 170HX apparently ships with ~80GB of HBM onboard, just fused off. Software unlocks got people to 64GB. She used voltage fault injection to get past the fuse lock, then enabled all...
Original headline: "Someone voltage-glitched a CMP 170HX mining card into a working A100-80G, and it's ~1.18x faster than retail"
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- Nov 12, 02:47 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Someone voltage-glitched a CMP 170HX mining card into a working A100-80G, and it's ~1.18x faster than retail