ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 10GB VRAM CMP 170HX 10 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1560GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

4160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX 10 GB +2553%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

CMP 170HX 10 GB

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Sep 2021

Radeon R600

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

HBM2e

512bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1560GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

320

Shading Units

4480

16

TMUs

280

16

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

10 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

215W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

GA100

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

GA100-105A-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

N/A

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

4.0

Shader Model

N/A

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