FirePro S9170 vs Radeon Pro W5500

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking234not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation43.22no data
Power efficiency13.19no data
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameNavi 14Hawaii
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date10 February 2020 (4 years ago)8 July 2015 (9 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

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 cores14082816
Core clock speed1187 MHz930 MHz
Boost clock speed1400 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,400 million6,200 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)125 Watt275 Watt
Texture fill rate123.2163.7
Floating-point processing power3.942 TFLOPS5.238 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs88176

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 4.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB32 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed1750 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth224.0 GB/s320.0 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 Connectors4x DisplayPortNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 10 February 2020 8 July 2015
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 32 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 125 Watt 275 Watt

Pro W5500 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 120% lower power consumption.

FirePro S9170, on the other hand, has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon Pro W5500 and FirePro S9170. We've got no test results to judge.


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