NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

NVIDIA CMP 170HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1777MHz vs 1410MHz)

Lower TDP (195W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

12.74 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX

12.63 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3060 8 GB GA104

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CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Sep 2021

GeForce 30

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1320 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1777 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1875 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

HBM2e

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

-

28

SM Count

70

3584

Shading Units

4480

112

TMUs

280

64

ROPs

128

112

Tensor Cores

280

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

113.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

199.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

12.74 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

12.74 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

199.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

195W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GA100

GA104

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Ampere

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

7 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.6

CUDA

8.0

6.7

Shader Model

N/A

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