AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD FirePro W5000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro W5000 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 9 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (75W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
FirePro W5000
+154%
1.267 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Aug 2012
FireStream
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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802 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
102.4GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
12
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
768
16
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1267 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
79.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
75W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
Pitcairn
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GPU Variant
Pitcairn LE GL
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
212 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
