NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps vs AMD FireStream 9170

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (216.7GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps +780%

4.375 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 9Gbps

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2257 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

216.7GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

10

SM Count

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

105W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

RV670

GP106-410-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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