AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 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 500W)
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
2496 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 295X2
+1053%
5.733 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Apr 2014
FireStream
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
44
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
2816
16
TMUs
176
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
500W
300 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
Vesuvius
-
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
6.3
