GeForce RTX 4070 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 rated20
Place by popularitynot in top-10032
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data60.23
Power efficiencyno data23.96
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameHawaiiAD104
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date8 July 2015 (9 years ago)12 April 2023 (1 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 cores28165888
Core clock speed930 MHz1920 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2475 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million35,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt200 Watt
Texture fill rate163.7455.4
Floating-point processing power5.238 TFLOPS29.15 TFLOPS
ROPs6464
TMUs176184
Tensor Coresno data184
Ray Tracing Coresno data46

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 mm240 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 12 April 2023
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 12 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 200 Watt

FirePro S9170 has a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount.

RTX 4070, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 7 years, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 37.5% lower power consumption.

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

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


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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