NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32MB VRAM GeForce2 GTS and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 5.312GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2000
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 2
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 4x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
166 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
32MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
5.312GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
320
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
800.0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
1.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
105W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV15
GPU Name
RV670
GeForce2 GTS
GPU Variant
-
Celsius
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
180 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.025 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
88 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
7.0
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
1.5
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
-
Shader Model
4.1
