AMD FirePro S9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 285

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

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

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Lower TDP (190W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro S9170 +59%

5.238 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

3.29 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Jul 2015

Release Date

Sep 2014

FirePro

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

44

Compute Units

28

2816

Shading Units

1792

176

TMUs

112

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.38 GPixel/s

163.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

5.238 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

2.619 TFLOPS

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

Tonga

Hawaii XT GL

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

275W

TDP

190W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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