FireStream 9250 vs Radeon R9 290
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 275W)
Radeon R9 290 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
1760 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1000
Radeon R9 290
+384%
4849
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Nov 2013
FireStream
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
40
800
Shading Units
2560
40
TMUs
160
16
ROPs
64
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
60.61 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
151.5 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.849 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
606.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
275W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Hawaii
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Hawaii PRO
(215-0852020)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
6.3
