AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA CMP 40HX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 8GB VRAM CMP 40HX 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 185W)
NVIDIA CMP 40HX 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1650MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
CMP 40HX
+1429%
7.603 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Feb 2021
FireStream
Generation
Mining GPUs
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1470 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1650 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
36
320
Shading Units
2304
16
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
64
-
Tensor Cores
288
-
RT Cores
36
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
105.6 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
237.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
15.21 TFLOPS
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
7.603 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
237.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
185W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
TU106
-
GPU Variant
TU106-100-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Turing
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
12 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
10.8 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
445 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
7.5
4.1
Shader Model
6.8
