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NVIDIA CMP 170HX vs AMD FireStream 9270

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1410MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
3680 additional rendering cores
AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
CMP 170HX +952%
12.63 TFLOPS
FireStream 9270
1.2 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Sep 2021
Release Date
Nov 2008
Mining GPUs
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz
Base Clock
-
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1458 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz

Memory

16GB
Memory Size
2GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
256bit
1493GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
10
70
SM Count
-
4480
Shading Units
800
280
TMUs
40
128
ROPs
16
280
Tensor Cores
-
-
-
-
192 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

180.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
394.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
50.53 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.63 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
6.317 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W
TDP
160W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100
GPU Name
RV770
GA100-105F-A1
GPU Variant
RV770 XT
Ampere
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
55 nm
54.2 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
826 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
8.0
CUDA
-
N/A
Shader Model
4.1
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