AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA CMP 170HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

4096 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +1290%

12.63 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Sep 2021

Polaris

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

32bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

384

Shading Units

4480

24

TMUs

280

16

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GA100

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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