NVIDIA CMP 170HX vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

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NVIDIA CMP 170HX AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1410MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

CMP 170HX +821%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX

VS

Radeon RX 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Apr 2018

Mining GPUs

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1140 MHz

Base Clock

1019 MHz

1410 MHz

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

1458 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1493GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

4480

Shading Units

640

280

TMUs

40

128

ROPs

16

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

17.14 GPixel/s

394.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

50.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

12.63 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

6.317 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

85.68 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Baffin

GA100-105F-A1

GPU Variant

Baffin LE

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

7 nm

Process Size

14 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

3 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

60W

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 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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