CMP 170HX vs Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

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
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRavenGA100
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date23 April 2018 (6 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 cores5124480
Core clock speed300 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speed1100 MHz1410 MHz
Number of transistors4,940 million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate35.20394.8
Floating-point processing power1.126 TFLOPS12.63 TFLOPS
ROPs8128
TMUs32280
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).

InterfaceIGPPCIe 4.0 x4
WidthIGPIGP
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 typeSystem SharedHBM2e
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared16 GB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared4096 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared1458 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1,493 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)N/A
Shader Model6.4N/A
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.131N/A
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 April 2018 1 September 2021
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 250 Watt

Vega 8 Efficient has 614.3% lower power consumption.

CMP 170HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Vega 8 Efficient and CMP 170HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon Vega 8 Efficient is a desktop card while CMP 170HX is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient
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