NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Low Power vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 Low Power 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 950 Low Power 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1190MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950 Low Power
+267%
1.828 TFLOPS
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1026 MHz
Base Clock
-
1190 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
768
Shading Units
320
48
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.08 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
57.12 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.828 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
57.12 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
105W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
RV670
GM206-251-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
228 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
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
