NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs AMD FirePro S9170

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Lower TDP (182W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 896GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 111.9GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +998%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jul 2015

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

448bit

Memory Bus

512bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

24

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

2816

64

TMUs

176

28

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

224 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

182W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Hawaii

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.3

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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