FireStream 9250 vs Radeon HD 6970 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 X2 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 375W)
Radeon HD 6970 X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1000
Radeon HD 6970 X2
+170%
2703
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Unknown
FireStream
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
24
800
Shading Units
1536
40
TMUs
96
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
28.16 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
375W
450 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Antilles
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Antilles XT
(215-0807027)
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale 3
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
389 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
