ATI 3D Rage IIC PCI vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Nov 2007
Rage 2
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
83 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
2GB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
320
1
TMUs
16
1
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
105W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
RV670
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
-
Rage 2
Architecture
TeraScale
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
N/A
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
-
Shader Model
4.1
