AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170 +434%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 8600 GTS

0.093 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce 8600 GTS

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Apr 2007

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 8

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.400 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.80 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

92.80 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

105W

TDP

60W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G84

-

GPU Variant

G84-400-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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