Radeon Pro Duo Polaris vs FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+1052%
5728
FireStream 9170
497
Graphics Card
Apr 2017
Release Date
Nov 2007
Radeon Pro GCN
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
16GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
224.0GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
4
2304
Shading Units
320
144
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
39.78 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
179.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
5.728 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
5.728 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
358.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
105W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
RV670
Ellesmere Gemini GL
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
55 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
2.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.7
Shader Model
4.1
