AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 220W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1725MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

5568 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 +3986%

20.31 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

GeForce RTX 3070

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Sep 2020

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1725 MHz

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

320

Shading Units

5888

16

TMUs

184

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

165.6 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

317.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

20.31 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.31 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

317.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

220W

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

GA104-300-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

6.6

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