NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs 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 1024GB)
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
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
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
-
Compute Units
4
4
SM Count
-
192
Shading Units
320
32
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
-
-
-
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
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 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
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
