NVIDIA CMP 170HX vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM 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 late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

3968 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (55W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

CMP 170HX +1442%

12.63 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

0.819 TFLOPS

CMP 170HX

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Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2021

Release Date

Sep 2013

Mining GPUs

Generation

Sea 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

1125 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

4096bit

Memory Bus

128bit

1493GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

70

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

4480

Shading Units

512

280

TMUs

32

128

ROPs

16

280

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

180.5 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

394.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

50.53 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.63 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

6.317 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Cape Verde

GA100-105F-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

55W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (11_1)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

5.1

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