AMD FireStream 9170 vs NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 and 8GB VRAM RTX A5000 8Q 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 230W)
NVIDIA RTX A5000-8Q 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1695MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (768.0GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
7872 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9170
0.497 TFLOPS
RTX A5000 8Q
+5487%
27.77 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Apr 2021
FireStream
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1170 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
802 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
51.33GB/s
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
64
320
Shading Units
8192
16
TMUs
256
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
256
-
RT Cores
64
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
6 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.43 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
12.43 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
497.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
99.46 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
105W
TDP
230W
300 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV670
GPU Name
GA102
-
-
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
55 nm
Process Size
8 nm
0.666 billion
Transistors
28.3 billion
192 mm²
Die Size
628 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
8.6
4.1
Shader Model
6.7
