FireStream 9250 vs FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Lower TDP (105W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+101%
1000
FireStream 9170
497
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Nov 2007
FireStream
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
4
800
Shading Units
320
40
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
105W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
RV670
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
4.1
Shader Model
4.1
