AMD FireStream 9250 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
800 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 150W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jun 2008
Release Date
Apr 2006
FireStream
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
993 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
63.55GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
10
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
800
Shading Units
-
40
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.440 GPixel/s
25.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.880 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1000 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
200.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
30W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV770
GPU Name
NV43
RV770 PRO
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
TeraScale
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.956 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
256 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.1
Shader Model
3.0
