AMD Radeon RX 480 vs AMD FirePro S9170

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (32GB vs 8GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +11%

5.834 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

Jul 2015

Arctic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

44

-

2304

Shading Units

2816

144

TMUs

176

32

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

275W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

Hawaii

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

232 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

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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