NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA CMP 40HX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 8GB VRAM CMP 40HX 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 185W)

NVIDIA CMP 40HX 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1650MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

CMP 40HX +93%

7.603 TFLOPS

Blender

GeForce GTX 970

302

CMP 40HX +328%

1294

GeForce GTX 970

VS

CMP 40HX

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Feb 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

36

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

2304

104

TMUs

144

56

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

288

-

RT Cores

36

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

105.6 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

237.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.21 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.603 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

237.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

TU106

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-100-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

185W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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