AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
464 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 160W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 X2 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+6%
1 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 460 X2
0.942 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Mar 2011
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
7
800
Shading Units
336
40
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.814 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
39.26 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
941.5 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
78.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
160W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
Outputs
3x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GF104
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
GF104-300-KB-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
1.95 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
332 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.1
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
