AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

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AMD FireStream 9170 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 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)

Lower TDP (105W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.3GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES +110%

1.046 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

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GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Sep 2011

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

128.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

336

16

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GF114

-

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

105W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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