NVIDIA GeForce 6800 vs AMD FireStream 9170

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 6800

AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce 6800

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Nov 2004

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 6 PCIe

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

300 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

Shading Units

320

12

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

3.900 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

105W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

NV41

GPU Name

RV670

-

Curie

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

130 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.19 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

225 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

3.0

Shader Model

4.1

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