FireStream 9250 vs GeForce 9800 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
672 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9800 GTX 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (70.40GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
Lower TDP (141W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+112%
1000
GeForce 9800 GTX
470
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jan 2009
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1100 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
70.40GB/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
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.81 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
47.23 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
470.0 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
141W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
G92B
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
G92-420-B1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
260 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