AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD FirePro S9170

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 264.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +38%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

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FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Jul 2015

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

44

2048

Shading Units

2816

128

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

275W

900 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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