AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X 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 115W)

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X +296%

1.971 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon R7 260X

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Oct 2013

FireStream

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

14

-

320

Shading Units

896

16

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

115W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Bonaire

-

GPU Variant

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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