AMD FireStream 9270 vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages
Released 1 years late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9270
+141%
1.2 TFLOPS
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
Nov 2007
FireStream
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
320
40
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
105W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
RV670
RV770 XT
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
4.1
