Kate Land, an IT specialist, managed to unlock 80 GB of memory on the Nvidia CMP 170HX mining card, which is shipped with only 8 GB. In her test the modified card outperformed the server‑grade A100 by 18%.

According to Land, Nvidia limits the memory at the factory to separate mining and server product lines. She designed a modification board using AI, costing 640 RUB, and succeeded on nine out of ten cards (the tenth reached 64 GB). The CMP 170HX costs 240 000 RUB, while an A100 costs 1 600 000 RUB.