Radeon PRO W7800 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 rated16
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data29.90
Power efficiencyno data19.46
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameHawaiiNavi 31
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date8 July 2015 (9 years ago)13 April 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$2,499

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 cores28164480
Core clock speed930 MHz1855 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2499 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Watt260 Watt
Texture fill rate163.7699.7
Floating-point processing power5.238 TFLOPS44.78 TFLOPS
ROPs64128
TMUs176280
Ray Tracing Coresno data70

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 mm280 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin2x 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 GB32 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/s576.0 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 outputs3x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x mini-DisplayPort 2.1

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
OpenCL2.02.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 July 2015 13 April 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 275 Watt 260 Watt

PRO W7800 has an age advantage of 7 years, a 460% more advanced lithography process, and 5.8% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S9170 and Radeon PRO W7800. We've got no test results to judge.


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