NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 vs AMD FirePro S9000

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

AMD FirePro S9000

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250 and 6GB VRAM FirePro S9000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (150W vs 225W)

AMD FirePro S9000 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 250

0.387 TFLOPS

FirePro S9000 +733%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250

VS

FirePro S9000

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 200

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

28

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

1792

64

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.23 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

44.93 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

100.8 GTexel/s

-

387.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.226 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

806.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

225W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92B

GPU Name

Tahiti

G92-428-B1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO GL

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

260 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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