AMD FirePro S9170 vs AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

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AMD FirePro S9170 AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8470 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

2656 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +2012%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8470 OEM

0.248 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

VS

Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Jan 2013

FirePro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

2

2816

Shading Units

160

176

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.200 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

248.0 GFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Caicos

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

35W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.0

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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