AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Lower TDP (140W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+259%
1 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
May 2009
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
800
Shading Units
96
40
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
140W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
G92
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
