AMD Radeon HD 6990 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6990

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990 and 10GB VRAM CMP 170HX 10 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1560GB/s vs 160.0GB/s)

2944 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990

2.55 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX 10 GB +395%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990

VS

CMP 170HX 10 GB

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Sep 2021

Northern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1560GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

1536

Shading Units

4480

96

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

10 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

26.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

79.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

2.550 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

637.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

375W

TDP

250W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Antilles

GPU Name

GA100

Antilles XT (215-0807027)

GPU Variant

GA100-105A-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.4

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.0

Shader Model

N/A

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