NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FirePro S9170

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

Lower TDP (148W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 224.4GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970

3.92 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +33%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 2015

GeForce 900

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

-

1664

Shading Units

2816

104

TMUs

176

56

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

275W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Hawaii

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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