RTX 5880 Ada Generation vs CMP 170HX

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated4
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data21.58
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA100AD102
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date1 September 2021 (3 years ago)5 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$4,299 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores448014080
Core clock speed1140 MHz975 MHz
Boost clock speed1410 MHz2460 MHz
Number of transistors54,200 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt285 Watt
Texture fill rate394.81,082
Floating-point processing power12.63 TFLOPS69.27 TFLOPS
ROPs128176
TMUs280440
Tensor Cores280440
Ray Tracing Coresno data110

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
WidthIGP2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2eGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB48 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1458 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,493 GB/s864.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXN/A12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader ModelN/A6.8
OpenGLN/A4.6
OpenCL3.03.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA8.08.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2021 5 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 48 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 285 Watt

CMP 170HX has 14% lower power consumption.

RTX 5880 Ada Generation, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 200% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between CMP 170HX and RTX 5880 Ada Generation. We've got no test results to judge.


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