AMD FirePro S9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

VS

AMD FirePro S9170

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 520 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

2768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +3257%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

0.156 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

VS

GeForce GT 520 PCI

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Apr 2011

FirePro

Generation

GeForce 500

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCI

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

2816

Shading Units

48

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

29W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF119

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

GF119-300-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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