AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 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 274W)
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
FirePro D500
+348%
2.227 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Jan 2014
FireStream
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
24
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
1536
16
TMUs
96
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
274W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
Tahiti
-
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
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-
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4.1
Shader Model
5.1
