ATI FirePro V9800 vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro V9800 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FirePro V9800 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro V9800
+447%
2.72 TFLOPS
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Sep 2010
Release Date
Nov 2007
FirePro
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1150 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
147.2GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
1600
Shading Units
320
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
105W
600 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
RV670
Cypress XT GL
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
334 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
