AMD Radeon R9 285 vs AMD FirePro S9170

VS

AMD Radeon R9 285

AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 285 's Advantages

Lower TDP (190W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 2GB)

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

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +59%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 2015

Volcanic 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

2GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

44

-

1792

Shading Units

2816

112

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

190W

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

Tonga

GPU Name

Hawaii

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

GCN 3.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.3

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