NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs AMD FirePro S9170

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 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 680 's Advantages

Boost Clock1058MHz

Lower TDP (195W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 192.3GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680

3.25 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +61%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jul 2015

GeForce 600

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

1536

Shading Units

2816

128

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Hawaii

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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