CMP 170HX vs Radeon R9 290X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
CMP 170HX 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1410MHz
More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (250W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
CMP 170HX
+124%
12630
Radeon R9 290X
5632
Graphics Card
Sep 2021
Release Date
Oct 2013
Mining GPUs
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1140 MHz
Base Clock
-
1410 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1458 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
4GB
HBM2e
Memory Type
GDDR5
4096bit
Memory Bus
512bit
1493GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
70
SM Count
-
4480
Shading Units
2816
280
TMUs
176
128
ROPs
64
280
Tensor Cores
-
192 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 MB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
180.5 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
394.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
50.53 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
12.63 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
6.317 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
290W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA100
GPU Name
Hawaii
GA100-105F-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Ampere
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
7 nm
Process Size
28 nm
54.2 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
826 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
N/A
DirectX
12 (12_0)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
8.0
CUDA
-
N/A
Shader Model
6.3