AMD Radeon R9 290 vs AMD FireStream 9170

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 290 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +875%

4.849 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290

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FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Nov 2007

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Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

40

Compute Units

4

2560

Shading Units

320

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV670

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

275W

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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.3

Shader Model

4.1

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