AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
752 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages
Lower TDP (90W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
+541%
1 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
0.156 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Oct 2008
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
6
800
Shading Units
48
40
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
156.0 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
90W
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
G94
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
