AMD FireStream 9170 vs 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
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
