AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT vs AMD FireStream 9170

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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500 XT and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1845MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500 XT +945%

5.196 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500 XT

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Dec 2019

Release Date

Nov 2007

Navi

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1845 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

22

Compute Units

4

1408

Shading Units

320

88

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

59.04 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

162.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

10.39 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.196 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

324.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

RV670

Navi 14 XTX (215-0932396)

GPU Variant

-

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

130W

TDP

105W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.1

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