AMD FireStream 9170 vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1550 PCI 's Advantages
Lower TDP (27W vs 105W)
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Jan 2007
FireStream
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
802 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
4.256GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.808 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.808 GTexel/s
-
-
-
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
105W
TDP
27W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
RV516
-
-
-
TeraScale
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
2.1
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
3.0
