AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +440%

2.688 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon R9 270X

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

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

20

-

320

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

180W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Curacao

-

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

212 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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