AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 215W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireStream 9250
1 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
+8%
1.089 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Unknown
FireStream
Generation
GeForce 400
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
837 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1280MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
320bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
133.9GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
14
800
Shading Units
448
40
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
40
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
640 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.02 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
34.05 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1089 GFLOPS
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
215W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
GT215
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
GT215-400-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
2.0
4.1
Shader Model
5.1
