GeForce GTS 450 vs FireStream 9170

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

AMD FireStream 9170

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

FireStream 9170 Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (105W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 +20%

601

FireStream 9170

497

GeForce GTS 450

VS

FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

106W

TDP

105W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI
1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

RV670

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full)

4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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