AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 165W)
NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1440MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
3264 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
A30 PCIe
+1976%
10.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Apr 2021
FireStream
Generation
Tesla Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
930 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1440 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
HBM2e
256bit
Memory Bus
3072bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
933.1GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
56
320
Shading Units
3584
16
TMUs
224
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
224
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
24 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
322.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
10.32 TFLOPS
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.32 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
5.161 TFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
165W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GA100
-
-
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
7 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
N/A
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
N/A
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
4.1
Shader Model
N/A
