AMD FireStream 9170 vs ATI FireGL V3600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
200 additional rendering cores
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (73W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+245%
0.497 TFLOPS
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Jun 2007
FireStream
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
3
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
120
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
73W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
RV630
-
GPU Variant
RV630 GL
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
