NVIDIA CMP 30HX vs AMD Radeon R9 390X

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA CMP 30HX and AMD Radeon R9 390X 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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 30HX

AMD Radeon R9 390X

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA CMP 30HX

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 70% higher boost clock speed: 1785 MHz vs 1050 MHz
850.1x more texture fill rate: 157.1 GTexel/s vs 184.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 125 Watt vs 275 Watt
Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1050 MHz

Launch date	25 Feb 2021 vs 18 June 2015
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Texture fill rate	157.1 GTexel/s vs 184.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1050 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390X

2x more pipelines: 2816 vs 1408
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 6 GB

Pipelines	2816 vs 1408
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 6 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA CMP 30HX
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 390X

Name	NVIDIA CMP 30HX	AMD Radeon R9 390X
Geekbench - OpenCL	68128
PassMark - G3D Mark		9416
PassMark - G2D Mark		825
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		114.288
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		2911.861
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		10.947
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		118.411
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		683.568
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		11675
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3706
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		4242

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA CMP 30HX	AMD Radeon R9 390X
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU116	Grenada
Launch date	25 Feb 2021	18 June 2015
Place in performance rating	294	292
Design		AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$429
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	1530 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1408	2816
Pixel fill rate	85.68 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	157.1 GTexel/s	184.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	125 Watt	275 Watt
Transistor count	6600 million	6,200 million
Compute units		44
Floating-point performance		5,914 gflops
Stream Processors		2816
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays		6
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm, 9 inches	275 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	300 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin
Width	111 mm, 4.4 inches
Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support		PCIe 3.0
API support
DirectX	12 (12_1)	12
OpenCL	3.0	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Mantle
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	384 GB/s
Memory bus width	192 bit	512 bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1050 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore