AMD FirePro S9170 vs AMD Radeon RX 550X

VS

AMD FirePro S9170

AMD Radeon RX 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X 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 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1183MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +332%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550X

1.211 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

VS

Radeon RX 550X

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Dec 2018

FirePro

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1183 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

8

-

2816

Shading Units

512

176

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1211 GFLOPS

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1211 GFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.71 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

50W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Lexa

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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