NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs AMD FireStream 9170

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 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 1080 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +1685%

8.873 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

320

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

105W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

RV670

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

55 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

314 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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