GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample vs CMP 50HX

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU102TU104
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date24 June 2021 (3 years ago)no data (2024 years ago)

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 cores35843072
Core clock speed1350 MHz1515 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHz1710 MHz
Number of transistors18,600 million13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Watt215 Watt
Texture fill rate296.6328.3
Floating-point processing power11.07 TFLOPS10.51 TFLOPS
ROPs8064
TMUs192192
Tensor Cores448384
Ray Tracing Cores5648

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 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount10 GB8 GB
Memory bus width320 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth560.0 GB/s448.0 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 outputs1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.66.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 10 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 250 Watt 215 Watt

CMP 50HX has a 25% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 2080 Engineering Sample, on the other hand, has 16.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between CMP 50HX and GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that CMP 50HX is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 2080 Engineering Sample is a desktop one.


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