AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

VS

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP

NVIDIA CMP 170HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 640SP and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1410MHz vs 1071MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

3840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 640SP

1.371 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +821%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 640SP

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Sep 2021

Polaris

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1019 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1071 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

128bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

640

Shading Units

4480

40

TMUs

280

16

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

42.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

1371 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

1371 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

85.68 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

GA100

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

7 nm

3 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

123 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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