AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 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 1536GB)

Lower TDP (105W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 +170%

1.345 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Mar 2010

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

15

320

Shading Units

480

16

TMUs

60

16

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GF100

-

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

529 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

2.0

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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