NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8 GB vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2021
May 2013
Generation
Mining GPUs
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x4
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1140 MHz
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Boost Clock
1410 MHz
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Memory Clock
1458 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
HBM2e
GDDR5
Memory Bus
4096bit
128bit
Bandwidth
1.49TB/s
88.00GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
70
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Shading Units
4480
768
TMUs
280
48
ROPs
128
16
Tensor Cores
280
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L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
8 MB
256 KB
Compute Units
—
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
180.5 GPixel/s
17.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
394.8 GTexel/s
51.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
50.53 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
12.63 TFLOPS
1.651 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
6.317 TFLOPS
103.2 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA100
Saturn
GPU Variant
GA100-105F-A1
Saturn XT
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
7 nm
28 nm
Transistors
54.2 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
826 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
100W
Suggested PSU
600 W
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Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
N/A
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
N/A
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
8.0
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Shader Model
N/A
6.3
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.