NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD FireStream 9170

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti 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 550 Ti 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (105W vs 116W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti +39%

0.691 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 550 Ti

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 500

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1026 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

98.50GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

192

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

28.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

691.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

57.60 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF116

GPU Name

RV670

GF116-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

116W

TDP

105W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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