NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs AMD FirePro S9170

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 280 's Advantages

Lower TDP (236W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 141.7GB/s)

2576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +742%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

30

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

240

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

Hawaii

G200-300-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

Board Design

236W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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