AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +233%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

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CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

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

1458 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

4480

128

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

8 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

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

GA100

-

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-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

Board Design

500W

TDP

250W

900 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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