ATI FirePro V4900 vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FirePro V4900 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FirePro V4900 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
160 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 105W)
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro V4900
+54%
0.768 TFLOPS
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2011
Release Date
Nov 2007
FirePro
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
64.00GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
6
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
480
Shading Units
320
24
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
6.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
768.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
75W
TDP
105W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Turks
GPU Name
RV670
Turks XT GL
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.716 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
118 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
4.1
