CMP 170HX vs ATI Radeon HD 5550

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1108not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.79no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRedwoodGA100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date9 February 2010 (14 years ago)1 September 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$4,299

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 cores3204480
Core clock speed550 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1410 MHz
Number of transistors627 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)39 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate8.800394.8
Floating-point processing power0.352 TFLOPS12.63 TFLOPS
ROPs8128
TMUs16280
Tensor Coresno data280

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 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x4
Length165 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 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 typeGDDR5HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz1458 MHz
Memory bandwidth51.2 GB/s1,493 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGANo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)N/A
Shader Model5.0N/A
OpenGL4.4N/A
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 February 2010 1 September 2021
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 39 Watt 250 Watt

ATI HD 5550 has 541% lower power consumption.

CMP 170HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5550 and CMP 170HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5550 is a desktop card while CMP 170HX is a workstation one.


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