NVIDIA CMP 170HX vs AMD Radeon RX 550

VS

NVIDIA CMP 170HX

AMD Radeon RX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1410MHz vs 1183MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

CMP 170HX +942%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550

1.211 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX

VS

Radeon RX 550

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Apr 2017

Mining GPUs

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1458 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1493GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

70

SM Count

-

4480

Shading Units

512

280

TMUs

32

128

ROPs

16

280

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

180.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

394.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

50.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

12.63 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

6.317 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Lexa

GA100-105F-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.4

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