NVIDIA A30 PCIe vs AMD FirePro S9170

VS

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (32GB vs 24GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

A30 PCIe +97%

10.32 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

5.238 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Apr 2021

Release Date

Jul 2015

Tesla Ampere

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

930 MHz

Base Clock

-

1440 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1215 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

24GB

Memory Size

32GB

HBM2e

Memory Type

GDDR5

3072bit

Memory Bus

512bit

933.1GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

56

SM Count

-

3584

Shading Units

2816

224

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

64

224

Tensor Cores

-

192 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

24 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

138.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

322.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

10.32 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

10.32 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

5.161 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

165W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

8-pin EPS

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA100

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

54.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

826 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

N/A

DirectX

12 (12_0)

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

8.0

CUDA

-

N/A

Shader Model

6.3

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