AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 295 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 896GB)
80 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (105W vs 289W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 2 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 295
+19%
0.596 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Jan 2009
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
999 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
896MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
448bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
111.9GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
30
320
Shading Units
240
16
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
28
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
224 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
16.13 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
46.08 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
596.2 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
74.52 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
289W
300 W
Suggested PSU
600 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
GT200B
-
GPU Variant
G200-401-B3
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
470 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
1.3
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
