AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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 44.80GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (105W vs 140W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+78%
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
May 2009
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
320
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
140W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
G92
-
-
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
324 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
