AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 250W)

AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris +1052%

5.728 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon Pro Duo Polaris

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Apr 2017

FireStream

Generation

Radeon Pro GCN

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

36

-

320

Shading Units

2304

16

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.78 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

179.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

5.728 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.728 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

358.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

250W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Ellesmere

-

GPU Variant

Ellesmere Gemini GL

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.7

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