AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 GME 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 175W)
AMD Radeon RX 590 GME 's Advantages
Released 12 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1420MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 590 GME
+1216%
6.543 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Mar 2020
FireStream
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1257 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1420 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
2304
16
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
45.44 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
204.5 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.543 TFLOPS
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.543 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
409.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
175W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
Polaris 20
-
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTR
(215-0910066)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
55 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
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
1.3
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
6.7
