AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 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 512GB)

272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

Lower TDP (90W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170 +218%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Oct 2008

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

320

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

105W

TDP

90W

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

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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