AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
672 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (160W vs 197W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9270
+212%
1.2 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Nov 2008
Release Date
Mar 2008
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
115.2GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
800
Shading Units
128
40
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
12.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
30.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1200 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
240.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
160W
TDP
197W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
G92
RV770 XT
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
