AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +875%

4.849 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Nov 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

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

40

320

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Board Design

105W

TDP

275W

300 W

Suggested PSU

600 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 + 1x 8-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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