AMD FirePro S9170 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (32GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 302W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +150%

5.238 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5950

2.088 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

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ATI Radeon HD 5950

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Unknown

FirePro

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

18

2816

Shading Units

1440

176

TMUs

72

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Hemlock

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

Hemlock PRO

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

302W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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