NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 OEM and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 OEM 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
176 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (105W vs 106W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTS 450 OEM
0.451 TFLOPS
FireStream 9170
+10%
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2010
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
902 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.73GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
3
SM Count
-
144
Shading Units
320
24
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.698 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
18.79 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
451.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
37.58 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
106W
TDP
105W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF106
GPU Name
RV670
-
-
-
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
