AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA CMP 170HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1410MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +369%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

1280

Shading Units

4480

80

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GA100

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

212 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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