CMP 170HX vs Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking899not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.02no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2 (2016)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameBristol RidgeGA100
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)1 September 2021 (3 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 cores5124480
Core clock speedno data1140 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz1410 MHz
Number of transistors2410 Million54,200 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-45 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rateno data394.8
Floating-point processing powerno data12.63 TFLOPS
ROPsno data128
TMUsno data280
Tensor Coresno data280

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x4
Widthno dataIGP
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 dataHBM2e
Maximum RAM amountno data16 GB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit4096 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1458 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1,493 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.

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)N/A
Shader Modelno dataN/A
OpenGLno dataN/A
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-8.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2016 1 September 2021
Chip lithography 28 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 250 Watt

R7 (Bristol Ridge) has 1983.3% lower power consumption.

CMP 170HX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, and a 300% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) and CMP 170HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge) is a notebook card while CMP 170HX is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R7 (Bristol Ridge)
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NVIDIA CMP 170HX
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