AMD FireStream 9270 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages

Lower TDP (160W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireStream 9270

1.2 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +493%

7.119 TFLOPS

FireStream 9270

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

Nov 2018

FireStream

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

36

800

Shading Units

2304

40

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

Polaris 30

RV770 XT

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

55 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

160W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

6.4

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