AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 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 896GB)

104 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (105W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 +7%

0.536 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Sep 2008

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

27

320

Shading Units

216

16

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

28

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

182W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 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

GT200

-

GPU Variant

G200-103-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

576 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

1.3

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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