diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/ethminer/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/ethminer/default.nix
index 7d2cb5c7ff2c..22278cb9a4d4 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/ethminer/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/ethminer/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {
   lib,
+  stdenv,
   clangStdenv,
   fetchFromGitHub,
   opencl-headers,
@@ -8,6 +9,7 @@
   boost,
   makeWrapper,
   cudatoolkit,
+  cudaSupport,
   mesa,
   ethash,
   opencl-info,
@@ -15,22 +17,22 @@
   openssl,
   pkg-config,
   cli11
-}:
+}@args:
 
 # Note that this requires clang < 9.0 to build, and currently
 # clangStdenv provides clang 7.1 which satisfies the requirement.
-let stdenv = clangStdenv;
+let stdenv = if cudaSupport then clangStdenv else args.stdenv;
 
 in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "ethminer";
-  version = "0.18.0";
+  version = "0.19.0";
 
   src =
     fetchFromGitHub {
       owner = "ethereum-mining";
       repo = "ethminer";
       rev = "v${version}";
-      sha256 = "10b6s35axmx8kyzn2vid6l5nnzcaf4nkk7f5f7lg3cizv6lsj707";
+      sha256 = "1kyff3vx2r4hjpqah9qk99z6dwz7nsnbnhhl6a76mdhjmgp1q646";
       fetchSubmodules = true;
     };
 
@@ -41,6 +43,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-DAPICORE=ON"
     "-DETHDBUS=OFF"
     "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release"
+  ] ++ lib.optionals (!cudaSupport) [
+    "-DETHASHCUDA=OFF" # on by default
   ];
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
@@ -54,12 +58,13 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     boost
     opencl-headers
     mesa
-    cudatoolkit
     ethash
     opencl-info
     ocl-icd
     openssl
     jsoncpp
+  ] ++ lib.optionals cudaSupport [
+    cudatoolkit
   ];
 
   preConfigure = ''
@@ -71,10 +76,11 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Ethereum miner with OpenCL, CUDA and stratum support";
+    description = "Ethereum miner with OpenCL${lib.optionalString cudaSupport ", CUDA"} and stratum support";
     homepage = "https://github.com/ethereum-mining/ethminer";
     platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ nand0p ];
-    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ nand0p atemu ];
+    license = licenses.gpl3Only;
+    broken = cudaSupport;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index bb8e38fb4895..17440ea84746 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3485,7 +3485,9 @@ in
 
   ethash = callPackage ../development/libraries/ethash { };
 
-  ethminer = callPackage ../tools/misc/ethminer { };
+  ethminer = callPackage ../tools/misc/ethminer { cudaSupport = config.cudaSupport or true; };
+  ethminer-cuda = ethminer.override { cudaSupport = true; };
+  ethminer-free = ethminer.override { cudaSupport = false; };
 
   cuetools = callPackage ../tools/cd-dvd/cuetools { };