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Someone voltage-glitched a CMP 170HX mining card into a working A100-80G, and it's ~1.18x faster than retail

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 the working SMs (120-126 vs the 108 NVIDIA ships on A100). Her numbers: 85.9 TFLOP/…

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  1. 2026-11-12 02:47 · r/LocalLLaMA
    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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