AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA A16 PCIe

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA A16 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 16GB VRAM A16 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 250W)

NVIDIA A16 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (231.9GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

A16 PCIe +773%

4.339 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

A16 PCIe

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Apr 2021

FireStream

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

885 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

231.9GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

320

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

40

-

RT Cores

10

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.24 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

67.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.339 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.339 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

135.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GA107

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

Unknown

192 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.1

Shader Model

6.6

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