FireStream 9250 vs FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 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 274W)
FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1000
FirePro D500
+122%
2227
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jan 2014
FireStream
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
24
800
Shading Units
1536
40
TMUs
96
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
274W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Tahiti
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
