AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA NVS 300
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 512MB VRAM NVS 300 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 12.64GB/s)
784 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Lower TDP (18W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+2464%
1 TFLOPS
NVS 300
0.039 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jan 2011
FireStream
Generation
NVS
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
790 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
12.64GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
800
Shading Units
16
40
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.080 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.36 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
18W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DMS-59
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GT218
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
GT218-670-B1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
4.1
