CMP 170HX: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started CMP 170HX sales 1 September 2021 at a recommended price of $4,299 . This is a desktop graphics card based on an Ampere architecture and made with 7 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 16 GB of HBM2e memory clocked at 2.9 GB/s are supplied, and together with 4096 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 1,493 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is an integrated video card. Two 8-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 250 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about CMP 170HX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Ampere (2020−2022) | |
| GPU code name | GA100 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 1 September 2021 (2 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $4,299 | |
| Current price | $4569 (1.1x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
CMP 170HX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of CMP 170HX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 4480 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Boost clock speed | 1410 MHz | of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX) |
| Number of transistors | 54,200 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 250 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 394.8 | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of CMP 170HX 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 4.0 x4 | |
| Width | IGP | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 8-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on CMP 170HX: 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 | 16 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 4096 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2.9 GB/s | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,493 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on CMP 170HX. 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 support
APIs supported by CMP 170HX, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | N/A | |
| Shader Model | N/A | |
| OpenGL | N/A | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 3.0 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 8.0 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to CMP 170HX is Radeon RX Vega 64.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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