NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB vs AMD FirePro S9170

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1710MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

6144 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (32GB vs 12GB)

Lower TDP (275W vs 350W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB +484%

30.64 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Jan 2022

Release Date

Jul 2015

GeForce 30

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1260 MHz

Base Clock

-

1710 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1188 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR6X

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

912.4GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

70

SM Count

-

8960

Shading Units

2816

280

TMUs

176

96

ROPs

64

280

Tensor Cores

-

70

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

5 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

164.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

478.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

30.64 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

30.64 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

478.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

350W

TDP

275W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GA102

GPU Name

Hawaii

GA102-220-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

Ampere

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

8 nm

Process Size

28 nm

28.3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

628 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.6

CUDA

-

6.6

Shader Model

6.3

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