AMD FireStream 9170 vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5690 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 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 5690 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

80 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (64W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5690 +24%

0.62 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon HD 5690

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Feb 2011

FireStream

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

32.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

5

320

Shading Units

400

16

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

620.0 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Redwood

-

GPU Variant

Redwood XT (215-0757002)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

105W

TDP

64W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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