AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon HD 6670

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Radeon HD 6670

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6670 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 1024GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6670 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (66W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6670 +54%

0.768 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon HD 6670

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Apr 2011

FireStream

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

6

-

320

Shading Units

480

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.400 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

768.0 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

105W

TDP

66W

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

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Turks

-

GPU Variant

Turks XT (215-0803000)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

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

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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