FireStream 9250 vs Radeon R5 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Radeon R5 230 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Lower TDP (19W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+400%
1000
Radeon R5 230
200
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Apr 2014
FireStream
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
2
800
Shading Units
160
40
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.000 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
200.0 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
19W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Caicos
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Caicos PRO
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
67 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
