AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 210
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 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 6.400GB/s)
304 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 210 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
Lower TDP (31W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+1174%
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce 210
0.039 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Oct 2009
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
320
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.080 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.36 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
31W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GT218
-
GPU Variant
GT218-300-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
4.1
