AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM +91%

0.952 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

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

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

930 MHz

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1150 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

73.60GB/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

14.88 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

29.76 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.52 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRX

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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