NVIDIA CMP 170HX vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

NVIDIA CMP 170HX

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

3360 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

CMP 170HX +526%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX

VS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jul 2011

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

-

1458 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

256bit

1493GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

14

70

SM Count

-

4480

Shading Units

1120

280

TMUs

56

128

ROPs

32

280

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

180.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

394.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

50.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.63 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

6.317 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Barts

GA100-105F-A1

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

Ampere

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

255 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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