ATI FirePro 2460 Multi-View vs FirePro S9170

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Primary details

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

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ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameHawaiiCedar
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date8 July 2015 (9 years ago)1 April 2010 (14 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 cores281680
Core clock speed930 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million292 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt17 Watt
Texture fill rate163.74.000
Floating-point processing power5.238 TFLOPS0.08 TFLOPS
ROPs644
TMUs1768

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 2.0 x16
Length267 mm170 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount32 GB512 MB
Memory bus width512 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/s32 GB/s

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 outputs4x mini-DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model6.35.0
OpenGL4.64.4
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 July 2015 1 April 2010
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 512 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 17 Watt

FirePro S9170 has an age advantage of 5 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 2460 Multi-View, on the other hand, has 1517.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S9170 and FirePro 2460 Multi-View. We've got no test results to judge.


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