AMD FireStream 9170 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 228W)
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+447%
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Mar 2010
FireStream
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
1600
16
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
228W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
Cypress
-
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
4.1
Shader Model
5.0
