NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs AMD FireStream 9250

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

AMD FireStream 9250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (140W vs 150W)

AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

FireStream 9250 +259%

1 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

FireStream 9250

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 9

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

993 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

63.55GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

RV770

-

GPU Variant

RV770 PRO

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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