AMD Radeon R9 280X vs AMD FireStream 9170

VS

AMD Radeon R9 280X

AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +724%

4.096 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Nov 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

4

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

105W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV670

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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