AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 370X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (180W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 37% (1410MHz vs 1030MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

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

3200 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 370X

2.637 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +378%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X

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CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Sep 2021

Pirate Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1030 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

-

SM Count

70

24

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

4480

80

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

32.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

82.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

2.637 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

164.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Trinidad

GPU Name

GA100

Trinidad XT

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

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 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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