AMD FirePro S9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

VS

AMD FirePro S9170

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 512MB VRAM GeForce GT 230 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 9 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +3257%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 230

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

VS

GeForce GT 230

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Oct 2009

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2816

Shading Units

48

176

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G94B

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

G94-300-B1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

196 mm²

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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