AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 128MB VRAM GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)
784 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+2122%
1 TFLOPS
GeForce 9400 GT Rev. 3
0.045 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jun 2012
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
9.600GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
800
Shading Units
16
40
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.356 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.712 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
44.86 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GT218
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
GT218-670-B1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
4.1
