NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM CMP 170HX 10 GB and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1560GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

3072 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

CMP 170HX 10 GB +460%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950

2.253 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX 10 GB

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Dec 2010

Mining GPUs

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

-

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

5120bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1560GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

22

70

SM Count

-

4480

Shading Units

1408

280

TMUs

88

128

ROPs

32

280

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

10 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

180.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

394.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

50.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.63 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

6.317 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Cayman

GA100-105A-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

5.0

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