AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 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 1024GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (105W vs 106W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 450 +20%

0.601 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce GTS 450

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Sep 2010

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

902 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

57.73GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

320

Shading Units

192

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.264 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.06 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

601.3 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

50.11 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

106W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GF106

-

GPU Variant

GF106-250-KA-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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