AMD FirePro S9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 280
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jul 2015
Mar 2014
Generation
FirePro
Volcanic Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1250 MHz
Base Clock
-
827 MHz
Boost Clock
-
933 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
32GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
384bit
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
240.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
44
28
Shading Units
2816
1792
TMUs
176
112
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
59.52 GPixel/s
29.86 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
163.7 GTexel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
5.238 TFLOPS
3.344 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.619 TFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Hawaii
Tahiti
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT GL
Tahiti PRO3(215-0821330)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
6.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
438 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
275W
200W
Suggested PSU
600 W
550 W
Outputs
No outputs
1x DVI2x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
5.1