ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro S9170

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 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 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (228W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.0GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.72 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +92%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Jun 2010

Release Date

Jul 2015

Evergreen

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1195 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

153.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

44

-

1600

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

228W

TDP

275W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

Hawaii

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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