AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 X2 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 215W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (107.1GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470 X2
+72%
0.855 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Unknown
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
107.1GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
11
320
Shading Units
352
16
TMUs
44
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
13.38 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.75 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
855.4 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
215W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
3x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GF100
-
GPU Variant
GF100-030-A3
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
529 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
2.0
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
