AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX 10 GB
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Sep 2021
Generation
Sea Islands
Mining GPUs
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1215 MHz
Base Clock
—
1140 MHz
Boost Clock
—
1410 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
10GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
384bit
5120bit
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
1.56TB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
—
Shading Units
2048
4480
TMUs
128
280
ROPs
32
128
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
10 MB
SM Count
—
70
Tensor Cores
—
280
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
180.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
394.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
12.63 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
6.317 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
50.53 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GA100
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT(215-0821060)
GA100-105A-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
250W
Suggested PSU
600 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
N/A
CUDA
—
8.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.