NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 vs AMD FireStream 9250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 440 and 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 440 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Lower TDP (65W vs 150W)
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (63.55GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 440
0.311 TFLOPS
FireStream 9250
+221%
1 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2011
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
993 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
63.55GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
800
16
TMUs
40
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
12.96 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
311.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1000 GFLOPS
25.92 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
65W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF108
GPU Name
RV770
GF108-400-A1
GPU Variant
RV770 PRO
Fermi
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
