AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 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 375W)
AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
1728 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X2
+724%
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Unknown
FireStream
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
950 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
2048
16
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
375W
300 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
Tahiti
-
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
352 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
