AMD FireStream 9170 vs ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2950 PRO 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 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 2950 PRO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170 +29%

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2950 PRO

0.384 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon HD 2950 PRO

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Unknown

FireStream

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/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

9.600 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

RV670

-

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO ES (215-0708001)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

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

4.1

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