NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 240 OEM and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240 OEM 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 8 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (70.40GB/s vs 51.33GB/s)
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
208 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (105W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
0.363 TFLOPS
FireStream 9170
+36%
0.497 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jul 2009
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 200
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1100 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
70.40GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
14
SM Count
-
112
Shading Units
320
56
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
37.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
362.9 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
105W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92B
GPU Name
RV670
G92-240-B1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
260 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
