FireStream 9250 vs GeForce GTX 480
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
320 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 250W)
GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1000
GeForce GTX 480
+34%
1345
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Mar 2010
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Memory Clock
924 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1536MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
177.4GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
15
800
Shading Units
480
40
TMUs
60
16
ROPs
48
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.03 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
42.06 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1345 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.1 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GF100
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
GF100-375-A3
TeraScale
Architecture
Fermi
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
3.1 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
529 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
4.1
Shader Model
5.1