FirePro S9170: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
AMD started FirePro S9170 sales 8 July 2015. This is a GCN 2.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 32 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.25 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 320.0 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 275 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FirePro S9170: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | GCN 2.0 (2013−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Hawaii | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 8 July 2015 (10 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
FirePro S9170's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro S9170's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2816 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 930 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 6,200 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 275 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 163.7 | of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Floating-point processing power | 5.238 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 176 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L1 Cache | 704 KB | of 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550) |
| L2 Cache | 1024 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro S9170 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on FirePro S9170: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 32 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 512 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 1250 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 320.0 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro S9170. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by FirePro S9170, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | |
| Shader Model | 6.3 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.0 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro S9170 is Quadro K6000.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with FirePro S9170 according to our statistics.
