ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs AMD FirePro S9170

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (215W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +1000%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jul 2015

Radeon R600

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

44

320

Shading Units

2816

16

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Hawaii

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

215W

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

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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