FireStream 9250 vs Radeon X1950 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
800 additional rendering cores
Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (57W vs 150W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Jan 2007
FireStream
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
993 MHz
Memory Clock
600 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
800
Shading Units
-
40
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
12
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
57W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
RV570
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
RV570 XL
TeraScale
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
4.1
Shader Model
3.0
