NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs AMD FirePro S9170

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 AMD FirePro S9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 32GB VRAM FirePro S9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro S9170 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (32GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (275W vs 365W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

FirePro S9170 +321%

5.238 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

FirePro S9170

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jul 2015

GeForce 500

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

854 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

32GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

44

512

Shading Units

2816

64

TMUs

176

48

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.52 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

163.7 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.238 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

2.619 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

Hawaii

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT GL

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

365W

TDP

275W

750 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

No outputs

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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