AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

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AMD FireStream 9170 AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R9 260 OEM 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 1GB)

AMD Radeon R9 260 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

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

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 260 OEM +296%

1.971 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

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Radeon R9 260 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

-

Boost Clock

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

104.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

14

320

Shading Units

896

16

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

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

-

FP16 (half)

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Bonaire

-

GPU Variant

Bonaire XT (215-0839039)

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

Board Design

105W

TDP

85W

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 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

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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