AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 32MB VRAM GeForce2 GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 5.312GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Apr 2000
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 2
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
166 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
5.312GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
800.0 MPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
NV15
-
GPU Variant
GeForce2 GTS
TeraScale
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
180 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.025 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
88 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
7.0
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
1.5
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
4.1
Shader Model
-
