CMP 170HX 8 GB: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started CMP 170HX 8 GB sales 1 September 2021 at a recommended price of $4,299. This is an Ampere architecture desktop card based on 7 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 8 GB of HBM2e memory clocked at 1.46 GHz are supplied, and together with 4096 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1.49 TB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated graphics card. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about CMP 170HX 8 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2025) | |
| GPU code name | GA100 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 1 September 2021 (4 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $4,299 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
CMP 170HX 8 GB's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of CMP 170HX 8 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 4480 | of 57344 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Core clock speed | 1140 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 1410 MHz | of 3130 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB) |
| Number of transistors | 54,200 million | of 670,000 million (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 2 nm (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 250 Watt | of 3600 Watt (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Texture fill rate | 394.8 | of 4,062.5 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Floating-point processing power | 12.63 TFLOPS | of 260 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| ROPs | 128 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 280 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Tensor Cores | 280 | of 1792 (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L1 Cache | 13.1 MB | of 112 MB (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| L2 Cache | 8 MB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of CMP 170HX 8 GB and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x4 | |
| Width | IGP | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on CMP 170HX 8 GB: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | HBM2e | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 8 GB | of 432 GB (Radeon Instinct MI455X) |
| Memory bus width | 4096 Bit | of 32768 Bit (Rubin Ultra GPU) |
| Memory clock speed | 1458 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1.49 TB/s | of 3,277 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on CMP 170HX 8 GB. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by CMP 170HX 8 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | N/A | |
| Shader Model | N/A | |
| OpenGL | N/A | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 5090 D) |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 8.0 | |
| DLSS | + |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to CMP 170HX 8 GB is Radeon PRO WX 9100.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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