NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition vs AMD FireStream 9270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 3 months late
Lower TDP (65W vs 160W)
AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 21.34GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 440 Mac Edition
0.311 TFLOPS
FireStream 9270
+285%
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Nov 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
667 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
21.34GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
800
16
TMUs
40
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
12.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
311.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
25.92 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
65W
TDP
160W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
RV770
GF108-400-A1
GPU Variant
RV770 XT
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
