CMP 70HX vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking216not rated
Place by popularity84not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation58.29no data
Power efficiency16.04no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 24GA104
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date19 January 2022 (2 years ago)2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 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 cores10243840
Core clock speed2610 MHz1365 MHz
Boost clock speed2815 MHz1395 MHz
Number of transistors5,400 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology6 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)107 Wattno data
Texture fill rate180.2167.4
Floating-point processing power5.765 TFLOPS10.71 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs64120
Tensor Coresno data120
Ray Tracing Cores1630

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
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 12-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 typeGDDR6GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2248 MHz1188 MHz
Memory bandwidth143.9 GB/s608.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4aNo outputs
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 Model6.66.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.23.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 6 nm 8 nm

RX 6500 XT has a 33.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6500 XT and CMP 70HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6500 XT is a desktop card while CMP 70HX is a workstation one.


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