AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1076MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +1119%

6.06 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Jun 2015

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

2816

16

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

96

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GM200

-

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

8 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

601 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

6.4

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