AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 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 1024GB)
224 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
Lower TDP (69W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
+93%
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 240
0.257 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Nov 2009
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
320
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
69W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GT215
-
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
4.1
