GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER vs FirePro S9170

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated9
Place by popularitynot in top-10012
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data67.31
Power efficiencyno data24.36
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameHawaiiAD104
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date8 July 2015 (9 years ago)8 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores28167168
Core clock speed930 MHz1980 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt220 Watt
Texture fill rate163.7554.4
Floating-point processing power5.238 TFLOPS35.48 TFLOPS
ROPs6480
TMUs176224
Tensor Coresno data224
Ray Tracing Coresno data56

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount32 GB12 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/s504.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 July 2015 8 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 220 Watt

FirePro S9170 has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4070 SUPER, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 25% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S9170 and GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro S9170 is a workstation graphics card while GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER is a desktop one.


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