AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
864 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 970
+292%
3.92 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Sep 2014
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1050 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
1664
40
TMUs
104
16
ROPs
56
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.97 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
148W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GM204
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
GM204-200-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
398 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
