AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

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AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1560GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970

3.789 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX 10 GB +233%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

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CMP 170HX 10 GB

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Sep 2021

Southern Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1560GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

2048

Shading Units

4480

128

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

10 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA100

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

GA100-105A-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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