Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile 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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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameHawaiiAD107
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date8 July 2015 (9 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a year 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 cores28162560
Core clock speed930 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2025 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rate163.7162.0
Floating-point processing power5.238 TFLOPS10.37 TFLOPS
ROPs6448
TMUs17680
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 GB6 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/s192.0 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 outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.36.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.03.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 July 2015 26 February 2024
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 6 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 35 Watt

FirePro S9170 has a 433.3% higher maximum VRAM amount.

Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 8 years, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 685.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S9170 and RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro S9170 is a workstation card while RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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