AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs AMD FireStream 9170

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 6970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +443%

2.703 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

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FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Nov 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

4

1536

Shading Units

320

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

RV670

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

389 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

105W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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