FireStream 9250 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 294W)
ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
800 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1000
ATI Radeon HD 5970
+132%
2320
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Nov 2009
FireStream
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
128.0GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
20
800
Shading Units
1600
40
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
58.00 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.320 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
464.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
294W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Hemlock
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Hemlock XT
(215-0735075)
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
334 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
