AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs AMD FireStream 9170

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (105W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +320%

2.088 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Nov 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

4

-

1440

Shading Units

320

72

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

151W

TDP

105W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

RV670

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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