AMD FirePro S9170 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

1856 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (254W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +241%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

1.536 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

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Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Sep 2011

FirePro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

12

2816

Shading Units

960

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Barts

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

254W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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