AMD FireStream 9250 vs ATI Radeon HD 3550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3550 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 6.336GB/s)
760 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon HD 3550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+1983%
1 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 3550
0.048 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Aug 2008
FireStream
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
396 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
6.336GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
2
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
40
40
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.376 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.376 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
47.52 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
30W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DisplayPort
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
RV620
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
RV620 PRO
(215-0670006)
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.181 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
4.1
