NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8 GB vs AMD Radeon VII

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8 GB and AMD Radeon VII videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8 GB

AMD Radeon VII

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8 GB

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
913.4x more texture fill rate: 394.8 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
Around 17% higher pipelines: 4480 vs 3840
Around 20% lower typical power consumption: 250 Watt vs 300 Watt

Launch date	1 Sep 2021 vs 7 February 2019
Texture fill rate	394.8 GTexel/s vs 432.24 GT/s
Pipelines	4480 vs 3840
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt vs 300 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon VII

Around 23% higher core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Around 24% higher boost clock speed: 1750 MHz vs 1410 MHz
2x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 8 GB
Around 37% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1458 MHz, 2.9 Gbps effective

Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 1140 MHz
Boost clock speed	1750 MHz vs 1410 MHz
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 8 GB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1458 MHz, 2.9 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8 GB
GPU 2: AMD Radeon VII

Name	NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8 GB	AMD Radeon VII
PassMark - G3D Mark		16398
PassMark - G2D Mark		792
Geekbench - OpenCL		91678
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		206.353
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		4659.199
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		21.606
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		69.256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		499.927
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3360
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11724
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3717
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3360
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		2304

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA CMP 170HX 8 GB	AMD Radeon VII
Essentials
Architecture	Ampere	GCN 5.1
Code name	GA100	Vega 20
Launch date	1 Sep 2021	7 February 2019
Place in performance rating	not rated	237
Design		AMD Radeon 2nd generation Vega
GCN generation		5th Gen
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$699.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		32.74
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1410 MHz	1750 MHz
Core clock speed	1140 MHz	1400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	7 nm
Pipelines	4480	3840
Pixel fill rate	180.5 GPixel/s	115.26 GP/s
Texture fill rate	394.8 GTexel/s	432.24 GT/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	300 Watt
Transistor count	54200 million	13,230 million
Compute units		60
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance		3.46 TFLOPs
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance		27.7 TFLOPs
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance		13.8 TFLOPs
Stream Processors		3840
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count		3
DisplayPort support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)	600 Watt	750 W
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	2x 8-pin
Length		305 mm
API support
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
DirectX		12.0
OpenGL		4.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	16 GB
Memory bandwidth	1,493 GB/s	1024 GB/s
Memory bus width	4096 bit	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	1458 MHz, 2.9 Gbps effective	2000 MHz
Memory type	HBM2e	HBM2
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
FreeSync
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore