NVIDIA CMP 170HX vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

4240 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

CMP 170HX +4285%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

0.288 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX

VS

Radeon HD 2900 GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Nov 2007

Mining GPUs

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

-

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1458 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

256MB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR3

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1493GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

4480

Shading Units

240

280

TMUs

12

128

ROPs

12

280

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

8 MB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

180.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.212 GPixel/s

394.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.212 GTexel/s

50.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.63 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.5 GFLOPS

6.317 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

R600

GA100-105F-A1

GPU Variant

R600 GT (215RGFDKA13FG)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

N/A

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

4.0

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