ATI FireGL V3600 vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (73W vs 105W)
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
200 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
FireStream 9170
+245%
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Nov 2007
FireGL
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
120
Shading Units
320
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
73W
TDP
105W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
RV670
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
