AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 10GB VRAM CMP 170HX 10 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (10GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1560GB/s vs 345.6GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2

5.632 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX 10 GB +124%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

CMP 170HX 10 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 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

-

Base Clock

1140 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

512bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

1560GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

2816

Shading Units

4480

176

TMUs

280

64

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

10 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

250W

950 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA100

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GA100-105A-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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