CMP 50HX 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 ranking824not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency25.30no data
Architectureno dataTuring (2018−2022)
GPU code nameno dataTU102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date6 December 2018 (5 years ago)24 June 2021 (3 years ago)

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 coresno data3584
Core clock speedno data1350 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistorsno data18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rateno data296.6
Floating-point processing powerno data11.07 TFLOPS
ROPsno data80
TMUsno data192
Tensor Coresno data448
Ray Tracing Coresno data56

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 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 typeno dataGDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data10 GB
Memory bus widthno data320 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1750 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data560.0 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX1212 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 December 2018 24 June 2021
Chip lithography 7 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 250 Watt

Qualcomm Adreno 685 has a 71.4% more advanced lithography process, and 3471.4% lower power consumption.

CMP 50HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years.

We couldn't decide between Qualcomm Adreno 685 and CMP 50HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Qualcomm Adreno 685 is a notebook card while CMP 50HX is a workstation one.


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