AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 16GB VRAM CMP 170HX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA CMP 170HX 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1410MHz vs 1000MHz)
More VRAM (16GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (1493GB/s vs 288.0GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
4.096 TFLOPS
CMP 170HX
+208%
12.63 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Sep 2021
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Mining GPUs
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
850 MHz
Base Clock
1140 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1410 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1458 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
HBM2e
384bit
Memory Bus
4096bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
1493GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
70
2048
Shading Units
4480
128
TMUs
280
32
ROPs
128
-
Tensor Cores
280
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
180.5 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
394.8 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
50.53 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.63 TFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.317 TFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
250W
600 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GA100
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
GA100-105F-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
7 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
352 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
