Radeon R9 295X2 vs CMP 170HX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
CMP 170HX 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1410MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (250W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
5733
CMP 170HX
+120%
12630
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Sep 2021
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Mining GPUs
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1140 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1458 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
512bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1493GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
70
2816
Shading Units
4480
176
TMUs
280
64
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
280
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
180.5 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
394.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
50.53 TFLOPS
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.63 TFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.317 TFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
250W
900 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
GA100
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
GA100-105F-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
6.3
Shader Model
N/A