AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

VS

AMD FireStream 9170 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 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 244W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 +218%

1.581 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce GTX 580

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Nov 2010

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 500

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

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

192.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.70 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

49.41 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.581 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

197.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GF110

-

GPU Variant

GF110-375-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

3 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Board Design

105W

TDP

244W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 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 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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