AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 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)
Lower TDP (105W vs 160W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.19GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460 v2
+110%
1.046 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Sep 2011
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1002 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
96.19GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
7
320
Shading Units
336
16
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
24
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
384 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.91 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
43.62 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1046 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
87.19 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
160W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GF114
-
GPU Variant
GF114-400-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
