Radeon RX 590 vs CMP 170HX
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
Radeon RX 590 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 10% (1545MHz vs 1410MHz)
Lower TDP (175W vs 250W)
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
7119
CMP 170HX
+77%
12630
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
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
70
2304
Shading Units
4480
144
TMUs
280
32
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
280
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
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 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
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