AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs AMD FirePro S9170

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Boost Clock1600MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 320.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (32GB vs 16GB)

Lower TDP (275W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +150%

13.11 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Jul 2015

Radeon Pro

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

32GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

512bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

64

Compute Units

44

4096

Shading Units

2816

256

TMUs

176

64

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Hawaii

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

275W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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