AMD FirePro S9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

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AMD FirePro S9170 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +5720%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

0.09 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

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GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

May 2010

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

32

176

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

89.60 GFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G96C

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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