NVIDIA CMP 50HX

Launched in March 2021 alongside the CMP 70HX and CMP 90HX, the CMP 50HX marked NVIDIA's shift from Turing-based mining cards (30HX/40HX) to Ampere-based ones, using a cut-down GA104 die from the same silicon family as the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070. The rationale was unchanged from the rest of the line: crypto miners were buying up GeForce cards during the 2021 shortage, so NVIDIA carved out display-less, mining-only SKUs to preserve gaming GPU supply for gamers, selling them exclusively through mining and system-integrator channels.

At launch the CMP 50HX delivered around 45 MH/s mining Ethereum, positioning it as a solid mid-tier option below the 70HX and 90HX. As with the rest of the CMP family, that number is now essentially a historical footnote. Ethereum's Merge to Proof-of-Stake in September 2022 eliminated GPU mining's largest and most lucrative use case almost overnight, and the CMP 50HX today survives only as a cheap, niche secondary-market card for miners of smaller Proof-of-Work coins or hobbyists repurposing it as a compute accelerator. We're honest that this is now a legacy product with limited practical relevance.

Within the CMP lineup, the 50HX sits above the Turing-based 30HX/40HX but below the 70HX (a higher-binned version of the same GA104 die) and well below the GA102-based 90HX and A100-derived 170HX. Its closest gaming relative is the RTX 3060 Ti/3070 family, cards that share its core silicon but retain full display output and driver support. For virtually any modern buyer, a used RTX 3060 Ti is the more versatile purchase; the CMP 50HX only makes sense for someone who specifically wants a dedicated, display-less mining or compute card at a lower price point.