AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD FireStream 9170 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 1GB)

80 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (105W vs 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280 +25%

0.622 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Jun 2008

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

30

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

240

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GT200

-

GPU Variant

G200-300-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

Board Design

105W

TDP

236W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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