AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2

VS

AMD FireStream 9170 NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

304 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170 +1004%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2

0.045 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Aug 2008

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

44.80 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G96C

-

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

105W

TDP

50W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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