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
GPU 1
GPU 2
1617
647
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
458
493
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M AMD FireStream 9170
PassMark - G3D Mark 1617 647
PassMark - G2D Mark 458 493

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M AMD FireStream 9170

Essentials

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

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

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

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

DirectX 12 API 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

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

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI