AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 335W)

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

4800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT +4658%

23.65 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

May 2022

FireStream

Generation

Navi II

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1860 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2310 MHz

802 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

80

-

320

Shading Units

5120

16

TMUs

320

16

ROPs

128

-

RT Cores

80

-

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

L3 Cache

128 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

295.7 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

739.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

47.31 TFLOPS

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.65 TFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1478 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W

TDP

335W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

Navi 21

-

GPU Variant

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

TeraScale

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

7 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

26.8 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

520 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.5

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