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If you’ve wanted to buy a consumer GPU these past few months, you’ve had nothing but tough choices to make. Current high-end cards from AMD and Nvidia are badly overpriced thanks to ongoing pressure from the cryptocurrency market. It’s a complex situation with a lot of moving parts, but the PC market, generally speaking, isn’t used to these kinds of shortages. There’s news that Nvidia is prepping some crypto-focused cards that could take pressure off the mainstream market — but it’s only going to work if the market remains relatively tame.
The specs on the Inno3D P102-100 units, according to Cryptomining-blog, are as follows:

• CUDA Cores: 3200
• Base Clock: 1582 MHz
• Memory Clock: 11 Gbps
• Physical Memory Size: 5 GB
• Memory Type: GDDR5X
• Memory Interface Width: 320-bit
• Memory Bandwidth: 400 GB/s
• Bus Support: PCIe Gen1 x4
• Card Size: 21.5 cm length, 12.5 cm height, dual slot
• Max TDP: 250 Watt
• Power Connectors: 2x 8-pin PCI-E

Since the blog mentions a PCIe Gen 1 x4 bus connection and that’s rather clearly not an x4 bus above, presumably the card is designed to be an x4 electrical connection rather than an x16 (there’s no problem with doing this on PCIe). The GP102 chip, by the way, corresponds with the GTX 1080 Ti, albeit a trimmed configuration of 3,200 CUDA cores instead of 3,584 cores.

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