NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA CMP 170HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 980 's Advantages

Lower TDP (165W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 7 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1410MHz vs 1216MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980

4.981 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +153%

12.63 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 900

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

2048

Shading Units

4480

128

TMUs

280

64

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

250W

450 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

GM204-400-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

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