Radeon RX 550X vs FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 550X and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 550X 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1183MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
192 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 550X
+143%
1211
FireStream 9170
497
Graphics Card
Dec 2018
Release Date
Nov 2007
Polaris
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1100 MHz
Base Clock
-
1183 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
96.00GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
4
512
Shading Units
320
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
18.93 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
37.86 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
1211 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1211 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
75.71 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
50W
TDP
105W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
RV670
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.2 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
103 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
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
