Gigabyte releases a P104-100 4GB Mining Processor

Dedicated mining graphics cards are not new, delivering shorter warranties, and a diminished feature set when compared to their gaming-oriented equivalent. The benefit of these cards is their lower pricing, as well as potential power savings due to the lack of several unnecessary components, which is ideal for cryptocurrency miners where profit is key. 

Gigabyte has now revealed their GV-NP104D5X-4G graphics card, delivering some unique specifications derived from Nvidia’s GP104 silicon. What Gigabyte is offering here is a graphics processor with the same CUDA core count as a GTX 1070 with GDDR5X memory, delivering specifications that are somewhere between a GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. The GPU itself only comes with 4GB of VRAM, which will help to make the card more affordable and will feature 4x PCIe 3.0 wiring, which is much less than the 16 lanes that gaming oriented graphics cards utilise. 

Aside from these the direct downgrades in VRAM capacity and PCIe bandwidth, this graphics card also comes with no display outputs, making this card useless for anything outside of compute. The card comes with a single 8-pin PCIe connection for power and uses a simple aluminium heat stack with a triple fan cooler design. 

 

Â	GTX 1080	GTX 1070 Ti	Gigabyte P104-100Â	GTX 1070	GTX 1060
GPU Architecture	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal
Process node	16nm	16nm	16nm	16nm	16nm
SM Units	40	38	30	30	20
Cores per SM	64	64	–	64	64
CUDA Core Count	2560	2432	1920	1920Â	1280
VRAM Type	GDDR5XÂ	GDDR5	GDDR5X	GDDR5Â	GDDR5
VRAM Cappacity	8GBÂ	8GB	4GB	8GBÂ	6GB
Memory Bus Size	256-bitÂ	256-bit	256-bit	256-bitÂ	192-bit
Memory Bandwidth	320 GB/sÂ	256 GB/s	320GB/s	256 GB/sÂ	192 GB/s
Base clock speed	1607MHzÂ	1607MHz	1607MHz	1506MHzÂ	1506MHz
Boost clock speed	1733MHzÂ	1683Mhz	1733MHz	1683MHzÂ	1708MHz
TDP	180WÂ	180W	–	150WÂ	120W
Power Connection	1x 8-pinÂ	1×8-pin	1x 8-pin	1×8-pinÂ	6-pin
PCI ExpressÂ	PCIe 3.0 16x	PCIe 3.0 16x	PCIe 3.0 4x	PCIe 3.0 16xÂ	PCIe 3.0 16x

   

Dedicated mining graphics cards are not new, delivering shorter warranties, and a diminished feature set when compared to their gaming-oriented equivalent. The benefit of these cards is their lower pricing, as well as potential power savings due to the lack of several unnecessary components, which is ideal for cryptocurrency miners where profit is key. 

Gigabyte has now revealed their GV-NP104D5X-4G graphics card, delivering some unique specifications derived from Nvidia’s GP104 silicon. What Gigabyte is offering here is a graphics processor with the same CUDA core count as a GTX 1070 with GDDR5X memory, delivering specifications that are somewhere between a GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. The GPU itself only comes with 4GB of VRAM, which will help to make the card more affordable and will feature 4x PCIe 3.0 wiring, which is much less than the 16 lanes that gaming oriented graphics cards utilise. 

Aside from these the direct downgrades in VRAM capacity and PCIe bandwidth, this graphics card also comes with no display outputs, making this card useless for anything outside of compute. The card comes with a single 8-pin PCIe connection for power and uses a simple aluminium heat stack with a triple fan cooler design. 

 

Â	GTX 1080	GTX 1070 Ti	Gigabyte P104-100Â	GTX 1070	GTX 1060
GPU Architecture	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal
Process node	16nm	16nm	16nm	16nm	16nm
SM Units	40	38	30	30	20
Cores per SM	64	64	–	64	64
CUDA Core Count	2560	2432	1920	1920Â	1280
VRAM Type	GDDR5XÂ	GDDR5	GDDR5X	GDDR5Â	GDDR5
VRAM Cappacity	8GBÂ	8GB	4GB	8GBÂ	6GB
Memory Bus Size	256-bitÂ	256-bit	256-bit	256-bitÂ	192-bit
Memory Bandwidth	320 GB/sÂ	256 GB/s	320GB/s	256 GB/sÂ	192 GB/s
Base clock speed	1607MHzÂ	1607MHz	1607MHz	1506MHzÂ	1506MHz
Boost clock speed	1733MHzÂ	1683Mhz	1733MHz	1683MHzÂ	1708MHz
TDP	180WÂ	180W	–	150WÂ	120W
Power Connection	1x 8-pinÂ	1×8-pin	1x 8-pin	1×8-pinÂ	6-pin
PCI ExpressÂ	PCIe 3.0 16x	PCIe 3.0 16x	PCIe 3.0 4x	PCIe 3.0 16xÂ	PCIe 3.0 16x