AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 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 150W)
AMD Radeon R9 270 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock925MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 270
+376%
2.368 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Nov 2013
FireStream
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
925 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
1280
16
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
Curacao
-
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
212 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
