AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300 GE 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 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
312 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GE 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+2385%
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce 9300 GE
0.02 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Jun 2008
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
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
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
6.400GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
1
320
Shading Units
8
16
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.160 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.80 GFLOPS
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 HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
G98
-
GPU Variant
G98-700-U2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
80 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
