AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

NVIDIA CMP 170HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290

4.849 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +160%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Nov 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

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

512bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

2560

Shading Units

4480

160

TMUs

280

64

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

250W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA100

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.3

Shader Model

N/A

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