AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 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 225W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X 's Advantages
Released 14 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1665MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (608.3GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
4544 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X
+3159%
16.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Oct 2022
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1410 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1665 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1188 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6X
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
608.3GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
38
320
Shading Units
4864
16
TMUs
152
16
ROPs
80
-
Tensor Cores
152
-
RT Cores
38
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
133.2 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
253.1 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.20 TFLOPS
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
16.20 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
253.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
225W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GA104
-
GPU Variant
GA104-202-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
392 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
6.7
