NVIDIA CMP 170HX vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

CMP 170HX +340%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

2.867 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX

VS

Radeon HD 7950

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Jan 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

-

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1458 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

3GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

384bit

1493GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

4480

Shading Units

1792

280

TMUs

112

128

ROPs

32

280

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

180.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

394.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

50.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.63 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

6.317 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Tahiti

GA100-105F-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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

Board Design

250W

TDP

200W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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