AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280

NVIDIA CMP 170HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (200W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1410MHz vs 933MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280

3.344 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +277%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Sep 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

827 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

933 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/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

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

104.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

3.344 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

836.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

200W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA100

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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

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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