GeForce 9600 GSO vs FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages
Lower TDP (84W vs 105W)
FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GSO
264
FireStream 9170
+88%
497
Graphics Card
Apr 2008
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
384MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
320
48
TMUs
16
12
ROPs
16
48 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
26.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
264.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
84W
TDP
105W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
RV670
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
