CMP 170HX vs Qualcomm Adreno 685
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Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | 915 | not rated |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | 23.60 | no data |
| Architecture | no data | Ampere (2020−2025) |
| GPU code name | no data | GA100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Workstation |
| Release date | 6 December 2018 (7 years ago) | 1 September 2021 (4 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 cores | no data | 4480 |
| Core clock speed | no data | 1140 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 1410 MHz |
| Number of transistors | no data | 54,200 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 7 nm | 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 7 Watt | 250 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | no data | 394.8 |
| Floating-point processing power | no data | 12.63 TFLOPS |
| ROPs | no data | 128 |
| TMUs | no data | 280 |
| Tensor Cores | no data | 280 |
| L1 Cache | no data | 13.1 MB |
| L2 Cache | no data | 8 MB |
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).
| Interface | no data | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Width | no data | IGP |
| Supplementary power connectors | no data | 2x 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 type | no data | HBM2e |
| Maximum RAM amount | no data | 16 GB |
| Memory bus width | no data | 4096 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | no data | 1458 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | no data | 1,493 GB/s |
| Shared memory | + | - |
| Resizable BAR | - | + |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | no data | No outputs |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 12 | N/A |
| Shader Model | no data | N/A |
| OpenGL | no data | N/A |
| OpenCL | no data | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | - | N/A |
| CUDA | - | 8.0 |
| DLSS | - | + |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 6 December 2018 | 1 September 2021 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 7 Watt | 250 Watt |
Qualcomm Adreno 685 has 3471.4% lower power consumption.
CMP 170HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.
We couldn't decide between Qualcomm Adreno 685 and CMP 170HX. We've got no test results to judge.
Be aware that Qualcomm Adreno 685 is a notebook graphics card while CMP 170HX is a workstation one.
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