NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3090 and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 20% (1695MHz vs 1410MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 16GB)
6016 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 936.2GB/s)
Lower TDP (250W vs 350W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 3090
+181%
35.58 TFLOPS
CMP 170HX
12.63 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2020
Release Date
Sep 2021
GeForce 30
Generation
Mining GPUs
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1395 MHz
Base Clock
1140 MHz
1695 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1219 MHz
Memory Clock
1458 MHz
Memory
24GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR6X
Memory Type
HBM2e
384bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
936.2GB/s
Bandwidth
1493GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
82
SM Count
70
10496
Shading Units
4480
328
TMUs
280
112
ROPs
128
328
Tensor Cores
280
82
RT Cores
-
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
6 MB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
189.8 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
180.5 GPixel/s
556.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
394.8 GTexel/s
35.58 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
50.53 TFLOPS
35.58 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.63 TFLOPS
556.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.317 TFLOPS
Board Design
350W
TDP
250W
750 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
No outputs
1x 12-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GA102
GPU Name
GA100
GA102-300-A1
GPU Variant
GA100-105F-A1
Ampere
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
8 nm
Process Size
7 nm
28.3 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
628 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
8.6
CUDA
8.0
6.6
Shader Model
N/A
