AMD FirePro S9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

AMD FirePro S9170

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Boost Clock925MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +176%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

1.894 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

VS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Mar 2015

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

16

-

2816

Shading Units

1024

176

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

59.20 GTexel/s

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.894 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

150W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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