AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM 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 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +64%

0.819 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Sep 2013

FireStream

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

8

-

320

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

55W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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