AMD FireStream 9170 vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 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 580W)
AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
2240 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 390 X2
+930%
5.12 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Sep 2015
FireStream
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
40
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
2560
16
TMUs
160
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
160.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.120 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
640.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
580W
300 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
Grenada
-
GPU Variant
Grenada PRO
(215-0880030)
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
