AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Lower TDP (105W vs 165W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1216MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
1728 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980
+902%
4.981 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Sep 2014
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
165W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GM204
-
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
4.1
Shader Model
6.4
