AMD FireStream 9270 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

VS

AMD FireStream 9270

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

560 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (160W vs 236W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9270 +92%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

0.622 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

VS

GeForce GTX 280

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Jun 2008

FireStream

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1107 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

141.7GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

800

Shading Units

240

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.26 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.16 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

622.1 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

160W

TDP

236W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

GT200

RV770 XT

GPU Variant

G200-300-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

576 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

1.3

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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