AMD FireStream 9170 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (105W vs 240W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170 +4%

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

0.476 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Unknown

FireStream

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

4

-

320

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

105W

TDP

240W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

R600

-

GPU Variant

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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