AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 960
+141%
2.413 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jan 2015
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
112.2GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
1024
40
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
37.70 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
75.39 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.413 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
75.39 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
120W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GM206
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
GM206-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
4.1
Shader Model
6.4
