AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R7 250E
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250E 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 R7 250E 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 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 R7 250E
+64%
0.819 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Dec 2013
FireStream
Generation
Volcanic 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
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-
-
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
