AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

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AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

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 OEM +394%

2.46 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

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GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Nov 2015

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1176 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1024

16

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GM206

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GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

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

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

6.7

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