AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

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AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM 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 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170 +314%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

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GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Jul 2008

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

320

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

12

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

105W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G94

-

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

240 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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