AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R7 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock780MHz
Lower TDP (30W vs 105W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 240
0.499 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Oct 2013
FireStream
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
730 MHz
-
Boost Clock
780 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
5
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
320
16
TMUs
20
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.240 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
499.2 GFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
30W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
Oland
-
GPU Variant
Oland PRO
(215-0837015)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.95 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
77 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
