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AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 134W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1032MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost +218%
1.585 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Nov 2007
Release Date
Mar 2013
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
980 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1032 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
144.2GB/s

Render Config

4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
256 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.51 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
66.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.585 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
66.05 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W
TDP
134W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI 1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670
GPU Name
GK106
-
GPU Variant
GK106-240-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
2.54 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
221 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
-
CUDA
3.0
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
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