FirePro S9170 vs Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking132not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency22.86no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameTU104Hawaii
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date27 May 2019 (5 years ago)8 July 2015 (9 years ago)

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 cores30722816
Core clock speed1035 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHzno data
Number of transistors13,600 million6,200 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt275 Watt
Texture fill rate296.6163.7
Floating-point processing power9.492 TFLOPS5.238 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs192176
Tensor Cores384no data
Ray Tracing Cores48no data

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount16 GB32 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/s320.0 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 outputsNo outputs
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 May 2019 8 July 2015
Maximum RAM amount 16 GB 32 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 275 Watt

RTX 5000 Mobile has an age advantage of 3 years, a 133.3% more advanced lithography process, and 150% lower power consumption.

FirePro S9170, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile and FirePro S9170. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile is a mobile workstation card while FirePro S9170 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Mobile
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