Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs CMP 170HX 8 GB
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 8GB VRAM CMP 170HX 8 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)
CMP 170HX 8 GB 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1410MHz vs 925MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.49TB/s vs 153.6GB/s)
3456 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 270 1024SP
1894
CMP 170HX 8 GB
+566%
12630
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
Sep 2021
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Mining GPUs
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x4
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
1140 MHz
925 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
1458 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
1.49TB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
70
1024
Shading Units
4480
64
TMUs
280
32
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
280
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
180.5 GPixel/s
59.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
394.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
50.53 TFLOPS
1.894 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.63 TFLOPS
118.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.317 TFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
GA100
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
GA100-105F-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
212 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