AMD Radeon 550 vs AMD FireStream 9170

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 550 and AMD FireStream 9170 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

AMD Radeon 550

AMD FireStream 9170

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 550

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 38% higher core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 800 MHz
2957.8x more texture fill rate: 37.86 GTexel/s vs 12.8 GTexel / s
Around 60% higher pipelines: 512 vs 320
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 55 nm
2.1x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 105 Watt
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 1600 MHz
3.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1980 vs 647

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	20 Apr 2017 vs 8 November 2007
Core clock speed	1100 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s vs 12.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	512 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 105 Watt
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective vs 1600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1980 vs 647

Reasons to consider the AMD FireStream 9170

Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 493 vs 457

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	493 vs 457

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 550
GPU 2: AMD FireStream 9170

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

457

493

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1980

647

Name	AMD Radeon 550	AMD FireStream 9170
PassMark - G2D Mark	457	493
PassMark - G3D Mark	1980	647

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon 550	AMD FireStream 9170
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 4.0	TeraScale
Code name	Lexa	RV670
Launch date	20 Apr 2017	8 November 2007
Place in performance rating	292	294
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1183 MHz
Compute units	8
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	800 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	55 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	75.71 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	1,211 GFLOPS
Pipelines	512	320
Pixel fill rate	18.93 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	37.86 GTexel/s	12.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	105 Watt
Transistor count	2200 million	666 million
Floating-point performance		512.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm, 5.7 inches
Recommended system power (PSU)	250 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 (12_0)	10.0
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Shader Model	6.7 (6.4)
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	56.00 GB/s	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz, 7 Gbps effective	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3