AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 6800 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Sep 2005
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 6 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.600 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.400 GTexel/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 DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
NV42
-
GPU Variant
6800 XT
TeraScale
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.202 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
222 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
3.0
