AMD FireStream 9250 vs AMD FirePro W8000
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)
AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1 TFLOPS
FirePro W8000
+222%
3.226 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jun 2012
FireStream
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
28
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
1792
40
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
100.8 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.226 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
806.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
225W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Tahiti
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO GL
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
