NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1410MHz vs 1188MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

3712 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950

1.825 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +592%

12.63 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

-

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

4480

48

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GA100

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

8.0

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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