NVIDIA CMP 50HX for AI: A Step-by-Step Guide

I’m gradually diving into the AI world. To gain hands-on experience, I bought a GPU specifically for image generation with ComfyUI. Wanting an affordable yet efficient solution, I chose the NVIDIA CMP 50HX - a card originally designed for mining. It has 10 GB of VRAM and 446 second-generation Tensor Cores, and cost me only $75.

Since I couldn’t find a complete guide for using mining GPUs in AI, I’ll share my experience here.

What about drivers?

❌ GeForce Game Ready Driver (v560.94 in my case) didn’t work.
❌ NVIDIA’s website doesn’t offer special drivers for this card.
❌ NVIDIA A100 Data Center driver (v573.39 for Windows) also failed.
✅ The solution: Install CUDA Toolkit (v12.9.1 for me) and NVIDIA cuDNN.

After this, Windows 10 recognized the CMP 50HX without issues.