CMP 90HX vs Radeon RX 580

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking239not rated
Place by popularity1not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation19.08no data
Power efficiency8.59no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePolaris 20GA102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date18 April 2017 (7 years ago)28 July 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$229 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores23046400
Core clock speed1257 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1340 MHz1710 MHz
Number of transistors5,700 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Watt320 Watt
Texture fill rate193.0342.0
Floating-point processing power6.175 TFLOPS21.89 TFLOPS
ROPs3280
TMUs144200
Tensor Coresno data200
Ray Tracing Coresno data50

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 4.0 x16
Length241 mm285 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin2x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount8 GB10 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s760.3 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.46.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 April 2017 28 July 2021
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 10 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 185 Watt 320 Watt

RX 580 has 73% lower power consumption.

CMP 90HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 25% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 580 and CMP 90HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 580 is a desktop card while CMP 90HX is a workstation one.


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