AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM and 10GB VRAM CMP 170HX 10 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1410MHz vs 925MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1560GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

3.315 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX 10 GB +280%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

VS

CMP 170HX 10 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Sep 2021

Sea Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

925 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1560GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

1792

Shading Units

4480

112

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

103.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

3.315 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

828.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA100

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

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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