NVIDIA started CMP 30HX sales 25 February 2021 at a recommended price of $799 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Turing architecture and made with 12 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 6 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 GB/s are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 336.0 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is dual-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x4 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 125 Watt.

Primary Details

Some basic facts about CMP 30HX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in performance ranking	289
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Architecture	Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name	TU116
Market segment	Desktop
Release date	25 February 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$799
Current price	$24 (0x MSRP)	of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB)

Detailed Specifications

CMP 30HX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of CMP 30HX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1408	of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)
Boost clock speed	1785 MHz	of 3599 (Radeon RX 7990 XTX)
Number of transistors	6,600 million	of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile)
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	of 4 (Radeon 780M)
Power consumption (TDP)	125 Watt	of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	157.1	of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB)

Form Factor & Compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of CMP 30HX 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 3.0 x4
Length	229 mm
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin

VRAM Capacity and Type

Parameters of memory installed on CMP 30HX: 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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Memory bus width	192 Bit	of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	14 GB/s	of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER)
Memory bandwidth	336.0 GB/s	of 3276 (Aldebaran)

Connectivity and Outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on CMP 30HX. 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 Compatibility

APIs supported by CMP 30HX, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	6.6
OpenGL	4.6
OpenCL	3.0
Vulkan	1.2
CUDA	7.5

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of CMP 30HX. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

CMP 30HX 17.55

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

CMP 30HX 6795

GeekBench 5 OpenCL

Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.

Benchmark coverage: 9%

CMP 30HX 62601

Gaming performance

Let's see how good CMP 30HX is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.