AMD Radeon Sky 900 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 900

NVIDIA CMP 170HX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1410MHz vs 950MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

2688 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (250W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 900

3.405 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX +270%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

VS

CMP 170HX

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Sep 2021

Radeon Sky

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

825 MHz

Base Clock

1140 MHz

950 MHz

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1458 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

384bit

Memory Bus

4096bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

1493GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

70

1792

Shading Units

4480

112

TMUs

280

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

280

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

8 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

180.5 GPixel/s

106.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

394.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

50.53 TFLOPS

3.405 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.63 TFLOPS

851.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

6.317 TFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

250W

700 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

GA100

Orthrus

GPU Variant

GA100-105F-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

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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