NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 545 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 545 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
Lower TDP (70W vs 105W)
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
176 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 545
0.415 TFLOPS
FireStream 9170
+19%
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2011
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 500
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
3
SM Count
-
144
Shading Units
320
24
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.320 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
17.28 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
414.7 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
34.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
70W
TDP
105W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
RV670
-
-
-
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
238 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
