AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA CMP 70HX

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 8GB VRAM CMP 70HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA CMP 70HX 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1395MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

3328 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X

5.632 TFLOPS

CMP 70HX +204%

17.14 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

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CMP 70HX

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jan 2021

Volcanic Islands

Generation

Mining GPUs

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1365 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1395 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

608.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

48

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

6144

176

TMUs

192

64

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

192

-

RT Cores

48

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.9 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

267.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

17.14 TFLOPS

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

17.14 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

267.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA104

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GA104-100-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.7

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