AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X 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 250X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

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

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X +144%

1.216 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Feb 2014

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

10

-

320

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

80W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

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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