AMD FireStream 9170 vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

VS

AMD FireStream 9170

ATI Radeon X1550 PCI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 105W)

Score

FireStream 9170

VS

Radeon X1550 PCI

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Jan 2007

FireStream

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

802 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

51.33GB/s

Bandwidth

4.256GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

-

16

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.808 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.808 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

105W

TDP

27W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

RV516

-

TeraScale

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

55 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

2.1

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

3.0

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