AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs AMD FireStream 9270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)
2016 additional rendering cores
AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages
Lower TDP (160W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+377%
5.733 TFLOPS
FireStream 9270
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Nov 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
2816
Shading Units
800
176
TMUs
40
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
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-
-
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
500W
TDP
160W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
RV770
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
RV770 XT
GCN 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
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-
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6.3
Shader Model
4.1
