CMP 170HX vs Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)	Ampere (2020−2025)
GPU code name	Ellesmere	GA100
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	24 April 2017 (8 years ago)	1 September 2021 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$999	$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	2304 ×2	4480
Core clock speed	1243 MHz	1140 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1410 MHz
Number of transistors	5,700 million	54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	250 Watt	250 Watt
Texture fill rate	179.0 ×2	394.8
Floating-point processing power	5.728 TFLOPS ×2	12.63 TFLOPS
ROPs	32 ×2	128
TMUs	144 ×2	280
Tensor Cores	no data	280
L1 Cache	576 KB	13.1 MB
L2 Cache	2 MB	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	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 4.0 x4
Length	305 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	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	GDDR5	HBM2e
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB ×2	16 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit ×2	4096 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	1458 MHz
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s ×2	1,493 GB/s
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	1x HDMI 2.0b, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	No outputs
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	N/A
Shader Model	6.7	N/A
OpenGL	4.6	N/A
OpenCL	2.1	3.0
Vulkan	1.3	N/A
CUDA	-	8.0
DLSS	-	+

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	24 April 2017	1 September 2021
Chip lithography	14 nm	7 nm

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