AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

AMD FireStream 9170 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +385%

2.413 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Jan 2015

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GM206

-

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

105W

TDP

120W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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