AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 285

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 190W)

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285 +561%

3.29 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon R9 285

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Sep 2014

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

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

28

320

Shading Units

1792

16

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.38 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

102.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.290 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.290 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

205.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Tonga

-

GPU Variant

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

5 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Board Design

105W

TDP

190W

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 Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.5

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