NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM CMP 170HX 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Lower TDP (148W vs 250W)
NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 7 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1410MHz vs 1178MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.49TB/s vs 224.4GB/s)
2816 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
3.92 TFLOPS
CMP 170HX 8 GB
+222%
12.63 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Sep 2021
GeForce 900
Generation
Mining GPUs
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1140 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1458 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
1.49TB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
70
1664
Shading Units
4480
104
TMUs
280
56
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
280
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
180.5 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
394.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
50.53 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.63 TFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.317 TFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
250W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GA100
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GA100-105F-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
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
