FirePro S9170 and RTX A4500 - video card comparison

FirePro S9170

RTX A4500

Architecture

GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

Hawaii

GA102

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

July 2015

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1650 MHz

Core clock speed

930 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

5,238 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

6,200 million

28,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2816

7168

Power consumption (TDP)

275 Watt

200 Watt

Texture fill rate

163.7

369.6

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

32 GB

20 GB

Memory bus width

512 Bit

320 Bit

Memory clock speed

5000 MHz

16 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

320.0 GB/s

640.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

4x DisplayPort 1.4a

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

-

8.6

OpenCL

2.0

3.0

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.3

6.7

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.3