AMD FirePro S9170 vs AMD Radeon Sky 900

VS

AMD FirePro S9170

AMD Radeon Sky 900

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon Sky 900 's Advantages

Boost Clock950MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +53%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 900

3.405 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

VS

Radeon Sky 900

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Mar 2013

FirePro

Generation

Radeon Sky

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

28

-

2816

Shading Units

1792

176

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

275W

TDP

300W

600 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tahiti

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

Orthrus

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

352 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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