AMD FireStream 9270 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

AMD FireStream 9270 AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (160W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +68%

2.016 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

VS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Jul 2011

FireStream

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

14

800

Shading Units

1120

40

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Barts

RV770 XT

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 11Gbps

2

AMD FireStream 9270 vs Intel H3C XG310

3

AMD FireStream 9270 vs AMD FirePro S9170

4

AMD FireStream 9270 vs ATI Radeon HD 5690

5

AMD FireStream 9270 vs AMD Radeon R7 350 OEM

6

AMD FireStream 9270 vs ATI FirePro V7900

7

AMD FireStream 9270 vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

8

AMD FireStream 9270 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

9

AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 X2

10

AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA P102 101

Related News

1

Intel May Increase Base Frequencies for Arrow Lake-S / H / HX, High-End Chips to Reach 3GHz or Higher

2

It's 2024: This Company Released a Laptop Supporting DOS and Windows 95

3

AMD's Strix Halo Supports Up to 128GB Memory, Clearly Designed for AI Large Language Models

4

AMD to Launch Advanced Ryzen AI PRO Series Soon

5

Intel Delays Lunar Lake Shipment: Postponed from June to September

6

Initial Test Results of AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Revealed: IPC Improvement Meets Expectations

7

Elon Musk Responds to Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: Humanoid Robots Will Be Ten Times More Common than Cars

8

AMD Revives Multi-GPU Support: Up to Four Cards and 192GB VRAM

9

TSMC Explores Advanced Chip Packaging Technology: Switches to Rectangular Substrate, Nearly Tripling Usable Area on 300mm Wafers

10

Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 SSD Launched: Up to 8TB Capacity with Mixed TLC/QLC Flash