AMD FirePro S9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 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 8 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

2720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages

Lower TDP (69W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +1938%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 240

0.257 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

VS

GeForce GT 240

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Nov 2009

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

54.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

96

176

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

257.3 GFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GT215

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

GT215-450-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

69W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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