NVIDIA CMP 170HX vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

CMP 170HX +160%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Nov 2013

Mining GPUs

Generation

Volcanic 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

4GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

512bit

1493GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

40

4480

Shading Units

2560

280

TMUs

160

128

ROPs

64

280

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

180.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

394.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

50.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.63 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

6.317 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA100-105F-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.3

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