NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS vs AMD FireStream 9170

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (40W vs 105W)

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 16.13GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9500 GS

0.088 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170 +464%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

504 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.13GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

32

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

8.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

88.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

RV670

G96-259-A1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

40W

TDP

105W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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