AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 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)
192 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (105W vs 197W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+29%
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Mar 2008
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
320
Shading Units
128
16
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
197W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
G92
-
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
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
