Radeon R9 280 vs FireStream 9250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 and 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 280 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+234%
3344
FireStream 9250
1000
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Jun 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
993 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
63.55GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
10
1792
Shading Units
800
112
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1000 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
RV770
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
RV770 PRO
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
