FireStream 9250 vs Radeon HD 6490
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Radeon HD 6490 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
Lower TDP (39W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+184%
1000
Radeon HD 6490
352
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jul 2011
FireStream
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
4
800
Shading Units
320
40
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
8
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
8.800 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
352.0 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
39W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Redwood
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Redwood LE
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.627 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
104 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
4.1
Shader Model
5.0
