AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 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 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 X2 +930%

5.12 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon R9 390 X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Sep 2015

FireStream

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

40

-

320

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

160.0 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.120 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

640.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

580W

300 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Grenada

-

GPU Variant

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

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

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

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.3

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