FireStream 9250 vs Radeon R9 270X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 180W)
Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1050MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1000
Radeon R9 270X
+168%
2688
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Oct 2013
FireStream
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1000 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
993 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
20
800
Shading Units
1280
40
TMUs
80
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
33.60 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.00 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.688 TFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
168.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
150W
TDP
180W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
Curacao
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
Curacao XT
(215-0848004)
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
