AMD FireStream 9250 vs AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235X OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon R5 235X OEM 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 6 months late
Lower TDP (18W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+257%
1 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 235X OEM
0.28 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Dec 2013
FireStream
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
2
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
160
40
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.500 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
280.0 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
18W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Caicos
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
5.0
