AMD FirePro S9170 vs NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro S9170 and NVIDIA Quadro M4000 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S9170

  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 930 MHz vs 773 MHz
  • 2x more texture fill rate: 163.7 GTexel / s vs 80.39 GTexel / s
  • Around 69% higher pipelines: 2816 vs 1664
  • 2x better floating-point performance: 5,238 gflops vs 2,573 gflops
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 8 GB
Core clock speed 930 MHz vs 773 MHz
Texture fill rate 163.7 GTexel / s vs 80.39 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2816 vs 1664
Floating-point performance 5,238 gflops vs 2,573 gflops
Maximum memory size 32 GB vs 8 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro M4000

  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 120 Watt vs 275 Watt
  • Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 6008 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed 6008 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro S9170
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Name AMD FirePro S9170 NVIDIA Quadro M4000
PassMark - G3D Mark 6673
PassMark - G2D Mark 673
Geekbench - OpenCL 18372
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 65.548
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 732.046
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.453
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 17.725
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 217.357
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6291
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3332
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6291
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3685
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3332
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 2302

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD FirePro S9170 NVIDIA Quadro M4000

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 Maxwell 2.0
Code name Hawaii GM204
Launch date 8 July 2015 29 June 2015
Place in performance rating not rated 523
Type Workstation Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $791
Price now $765.93
Value for money (0-100) 10.68

Technical info

Core clock speed 930 MHz 773 MHz
Floating-point performance 5,238 gflops 2,573 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2816 1664
Texture fill rate 163.7 GTexel / s 80.39 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 275 Watt 120 Watt
Transistor count 6,200 million 5,200 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 4x DisplayPort, DP DP DP DP 3-pin Stereo
Multi-display synchronization Quadro Sync
Number of simultaneous displays 4

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin 1 x 6-pin
SLI options 1
Width 1" (2.5 cm)

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 8 GB
Memory bandwidth 320.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 512 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 6008 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision Pro
High-Performance Video I/O6
Mosaic
nView Desktop Management

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