AMD Radeon R9 270X vs AMD FirePro S9170

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Boost Clock1050MHz

Lower TDP (180W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X

2.688 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +94%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Jul 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

44

-

1280

Shading Units

2816

80

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Hawaii

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

212 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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