AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD FirePro RG220
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 512MB VRAM FirePro RG220 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)
240 additional rendering cores
AMD FirePro RG220 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 6 months late
Lower TDP (35W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+521%
0.497 TFLOPS
FirePro RG220
0.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
May 2010
FireStream
Generation
FirePro RG
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
1
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
80
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.000 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
80.00 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
35W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DMS-59
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
M93
-
-
-
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.242 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
73 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
4.1
