AMD FireStream 9170 vs 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
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
