AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM 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 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM +376%

2.368 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Jan 2013

FireStream

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

20

-

320

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

175W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Curacao

-

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

212 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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