GeForce GTX 960 vs FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
+385%
2413
FireStream 9170
497
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
1024
Shading Units
320
64
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
105W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
RV670
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
