GeForce GTX 460 vs FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 460 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (86.40GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 768GB)
Lower TDP (105W vs 160W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 460
+82%
907
FireStream 9170
497
Graphics Card
Jul 2010
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 400
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
86.40GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
7
SM Count
-
336
Shading Units
320
56
TMUs
16
24
ROPs
16
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
9.450 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
907.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
75.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
160W
TDP
105W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF104
GPU Name
RV670
GF104-300-KB-A1
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.95 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
332 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
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
