AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950 +353%

2.253 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Dec 2010

FireStream

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

22

320

Shading Units

1408

16

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

70.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Cayman

-

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

105W

TDP

200W

300 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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