NVIDIA A2 vs AMD FirePro S9170

VS

NVIDIA A2 AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM A2 and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A2 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1770MHz

Lower TDP (60W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (32GB vs 16GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 200.1GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A2

4.531 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +15%

5.238 TFLOPS

A2

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Nov 2021

Release Date

Jul 2015

Quadro

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1440 MHz

Base Clock

-

1770 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1563 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

200.1GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

1280

Shading Units

2816

40

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

40

Tensor Cores

-

10

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

56.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

70.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

4.531 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.531 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

70.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA107

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

6.2 billion

Unknown

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

60W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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