AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD FirePro S9170

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (250W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 3GB)

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

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +38%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jul 2015

Sea Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

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

32

Compute Units

44

-

2048

Shading Units

2816

128

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

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

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

275W

600 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x 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 Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Hawaii

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

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

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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