AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1 GB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT 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 1GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
304 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Lower TDP (50W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+1613%
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce 9400 GT
0.029 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Aug 2008
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1 GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
320
Shading Units
16
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
16 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.836 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.672 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
29.38 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
50W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
G86S
-
-
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.21 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
127 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
