Home Comparison FireStream 9250 vs Radeon R9 270 1024SP

FireStream 9250 vs Radeon R9 270 1024SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock925MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1000
Radeon R9 270 1024SP +89%
1894

Graphics Card

Jun 2008
Release Date
Mar 2015
FireStream
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
925 MHz
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s

Render Config

10
Compute Units
16
800
Shading Units
1024
40
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
59.20 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.894 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770
GPU Name
Pitcairn
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
212 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
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