AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 10GB VRAM CMP 170HX 10 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1410MHz vs 1266MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1560GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480

5.834 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX 10 GB +116%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

CMP 170HX 10 GB

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Sep 2021

Arctic Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

10GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

5120bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1560GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

2304

Shading Units

4480

144

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

10 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GA100

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

GA100-105A-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

6.4

Shader Model

N/A

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