FireStream 9250 vs Radeon 550X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
288 additional rendering cores
Radeon 550X 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1218MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
Lower TDP (50W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1000
Radeon 550X
+24%
1247
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Mar 2019
FireStream
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1082 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1218 MHz
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
112.0GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
8
800
Shading Units
512
40
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
19.49 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.98 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
1247 GFLOPS
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1247 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
77.95 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
50W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Lexa
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
55 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
6.4
