AMD started FireStream 9170 sales 8 November 2007. This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 2 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 105 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about FireStream 9170: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	940
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.10	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	RV670
Market segment	Workstation
Release date	8 November 2007 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

FireStream 9170's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FireStream 9170's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	320	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	800 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Number of transistors	666 million	of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	105 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate	12.80	of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power	0.512 TFLOPS	of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs	16	of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs	16	of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FireStream 9170 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Width	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on FireStream 9170: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	256 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB/s	of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on FireStream 9170. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by FireStream 9170, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX	10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model	4.1
OpenGL	3.3	of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL	N/A
Vulkan	N/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of FireStream 9170. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

FireStream 9170 1.68

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

FireStream 9170 647

Gaming performance

Let's see how good FireStream 9170 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.