FireStream 9250 vs Radeon R7 250X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
160 additional rendering cores
Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 8 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
Lower TDP (80W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1000
Radeon R7 250X
+21%
1216
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Feb 2014
FireStream
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
10
800
Shading Units
640
40
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
15.20 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.00 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1216 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
76.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
80W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Cape Verde
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Cape Verde XT
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
