NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM CMP 170HX 10 GB and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 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 9 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1410MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1560GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

CMP 170HX 10 GB +193%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

4.301 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX 10 GB

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jun 2012

Mining GPUs

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

5120bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1560GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

70

SM Count

-

4480

Shading Units

2048

280

TMUs

128

ROPs

32

280

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

10 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

180.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

394.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

50.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.63 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

6.317 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA100-105A-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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