AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 590 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1545MHz vs 1410MHz)

Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590

7.119 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +77%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Sep 2021

Polaris

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

70

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

4480

144

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

8 MB

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

GA100

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Ampere

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

7 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

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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