AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD FirePro S9170

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 290X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 4GB)

Lower TDP (275W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +7%

5.632 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Jul 2015

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

44

-

2816

Shading Units

2816

176

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

580W

TDP

275W

950 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Hawaii

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.3

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