AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 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 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1777MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB +1730%

9.098 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Jan 2022

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1552 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1777 MHz

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

320

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

56.86 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

142.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.098 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.098 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

142.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

GA106

-

GPU Variant

GA106-150-KA-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

55 nm

Process Size

8 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

12 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

276 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

4.1

Shader Model

6.6

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