AMD FireStream 9250 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)
AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+472%
5.728 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Apr 2017
FireStream
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
2304
40
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Ellesmere
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
55 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
6.7
