AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX 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)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (105W vs 141W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (70.40GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170 +5%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GTX

0.47 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce 9800 GTX

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Jan 2009

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

320

Shading Units

128

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.81 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.23 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

470.0 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

105W

TDP

141W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G92B

-

GPU Variant

G92-420-B1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

260 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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