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AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA RTX A400

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 4GB VRAM RTX A400 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A400 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1762MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 105W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
RTX A400 +444%
2.706 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Nov 2007
Release Date
Apr 2024
FireStream
Generation
Quadro Ampere(Ax000)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1417 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1762 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s

Render Config

4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
320
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
-
Tensor Cores
24
-
RT Cores
6
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.19 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.29 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
2.706 TFLOPS
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.706 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
42.29 GFLOPS

Board Design

105W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI 1x S-Video
Outputs
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None

Graphics Processor

RV670
GPU Name
GA107
-
-
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
8.7 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
200 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
4.1
Shader Model
6.8
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