AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Oct 1999
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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802 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
SDR
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
NV10
-
-
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
7.0
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
1.2
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
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4.1
Shader Model
-
