AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD FirePro S9170

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +93%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Jul 2015

Northern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

44

1536

Shading Units

2816

96

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

Hawaii

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

TeraScale 3

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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