AMD FirePro S9170 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

VS

AMD FirePro S9170

NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Lower TDP (275W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1740MHz

More VRAM (48GB vs 32GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

7936 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170

5.238 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +614%

37.42 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

VS

A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Oct 2020

FirePro

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1305 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

84

2816

Shading Units

10752

176

TMUs

336

64

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GA102

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

6.3

Shader Model

6.6

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