AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
560 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 236W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+60%
1 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 280
0.622 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jun 2008
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1107 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
141.7GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
30
800
Shading Units
240
40
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.26 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
48.16 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.76 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
236W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GT200
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
G200-300-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
1.4 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
576 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
1.3
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
