AMD FirePro W9000 vs AMD FireStream 9170

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM FirePro W9000 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W9000 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 274W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W9000 +703%

3.994 TFLOPS

FireStream 9170

0.497 TFLOPS

FirePro W9000

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FireStream 9170

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Nov 2007

FirePro

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

802 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.33GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

4

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

124.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.994 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

998.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV670

Tahiti XT GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Board Design

274W

TDP

105W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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