NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M vs AMD FireStream 9170
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
- Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
- Around 6% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 800 MHz
- Around 46% higher texture fill rate: 18.7 billion / sec vs 12.8 GTexel / s
- Around 10% higher pipelines: 352 vs 320
- Around 17% better floating-point performance: 598.4 gflops vs 512.0 gflops
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
- Around 5% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 105 Watt
- 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1617 vs 647
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 25 May 2010 vs 8 November 2007 |
Core clock speed | 850 MHz vs 800 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 18.7 billion / sec vs 12.8 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 352 vs 320 |
Floating-point performance | 598.4 gflops vs 512.0 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 55 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 100 Watt vs 105 Watt |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 1617 vs 647 |
Reasons to consider the AMD FireStream 9170
- Around 33% higher memory clock speed: 1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz
- Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 493 vs 458
Specifications (specs) | |
Memory clock speed | 1600 MHz vs 1200 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 493 vs 458 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
GPU 2: AMD FireStream 9170
PassMark - G3D Mark |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M | AMD FireStream 9170 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 1617 | 647 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 458 | 493 |
Compare specifications (specs)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M | AMD FireStream 9170 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Fermi | TeraScale |
Code name | GF100 | RV670 |
Launch date | 25 May 2010 | 8 November 2007 |
Place in performance rating | 297 | 294 |
Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 850 MHz | 800 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 598.4 gflops | 512.0 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 55 nm |
Pipelines | 352 | 320 |
Texture fill rate | 18.7 billion / sec | 12.8 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 100 Watt | 105 Watt |
Transistor count | 3,100 million | 666 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Laptop size | large | |
SLI options | 2-way | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | 1x 6-pin |
API support |
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DirectX | 12 API | 10.0 |
OpenCL | 1.1 | |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | 2 GB |
Memory bandwidth | 76.8 GB / s | 51.2 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 256 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1200 MHz | 1600 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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