AMD FirePro S9170 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

AMD FirePro S9170

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 1 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (228W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +92%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Jun 2010

FirePro

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1195 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

20

-

2816

Shading Units

1600

176

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

228W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Cypress

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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