NVIDIA CMP 40HX vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA CMP 40HX and AMD Radeon R9 295X2 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA CMP 40HX

AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA CMP 40HX

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 62% higher boost clock speed: 1650 MHz vs 1018 MHz
109x more texture fill rate: 237.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 185 Watt vs 500 Watt
Around 40% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1250 MHz

Launch date	25 Feb 2021 vs 29 April 2014
Boost clock speed	1650 MHz vs 1018 MHz
Texture fill rate	237.6 GTexel/s vs 2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	185 Watt vs 500 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective vs 1250 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 295X2

2.4x more pipelines: 2x 2816 vs 2304

Pipelines	2x 2816 vs 2304

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA CMP 40HX
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R9 295X2

Name	NVIDIA CMP 40HX	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Geekbench - OpenCL	97088
PassMark - G3D Mark		8621
PassMark - G2D Mark		768
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA CMP 40HX	AMD Radeon R9 295X2
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 2.0
Code name	TU106	Vesuvius
Launch date	25 Feb 2021	29 April 2014
Place in performance rating	167	174
Design		AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,499
Price now		$1,099.99
Type		Desktop
Value for money (0-100)		11.14
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1650 MHz	1018 MHz
Core clock speed	1470 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	2304	2x 2816
Pixel fill rate	105.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	237.6 GTexel/s	2x 179.2 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	185 Watt	500 Watt
Transistor count	10800 million	6,200 million
Floating-point performance		2x 5,733 gflops
Stream Processors		5632
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Height	35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	229 mm, 9 inches	307 mm
Recommended system power (PSU)	450 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	2 x 8-pin
Width	111 mm, 4.4 inches
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	12
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	8 GB
Memory bandwidth	448.0 GB/s	640 GB/s
Memory bus width	256 bit	2x 512 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective	1250 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
LiquidVR
TressFX
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)