ATI VGA Wonder 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 ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 2.0 (2013−2017)Wonder (1990−1992)
GPU code nameHawaii18800-1
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date8 July 2015 (9 years ago)5 February 1990 (34 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 cores2816no data
Core clock speed930 MHz10 MHz
Number of transistors6,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm800 nm
Power consumption (TDP)275 Wattno data
Texture fill rate163.7no data
Floating-point processing power5.238 TFLOPSno data
ROPs641
TMUs176no 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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCI
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
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 typeGDDR5DRAM
Maximum RAM amount32 GB256 KB
Memory bus width512 Bit32 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz10 MHz
Memory bandwidth320.0 GB/s40 MB/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 outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)N/A
Shader Model6.3no data
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 July 2015 5 February 1990
Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 256 KB
Chip lithography 28 nm 800 nm

FirePro S9170 has an age advantage of 25 years, a 13107100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2757.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro S9170 and VGA Wonder. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro S9170 is a workstation graphics card while VGA Wonder is a desktop one.


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