AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 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 254W)

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +209%

1.536 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Sep 2011

FireStream

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

12

-

320

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.40 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

105W

TDP

254W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Barts

-

GPU Variant

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

255 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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