AMD FireStream 9170 vs ATI FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Lower TDP (105W vs 159W)
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+12%
0.497 TFLOPS
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
May 2007
FireStream
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
320
16
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
159W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
R600
-
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
