NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition vs AMD FireStream 9250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition and 1024MB VRAM FireStream 9250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1280GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (133.9GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
352 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 470 PhysX Edition
+8%
1.089 TFLOPS
FireStream 9250
1 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
837 MHz
Memory Clock
993 MHz
Memory
1280MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
320bit
Memory Bus
256bit
133.9GB/s
Bandwidth
63.55GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
14
SM Count
-
448
Shading Units
800
56
TMUs
40
40
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
640 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
17.02 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
34.05 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1089 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1000 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
215W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT215
GPU Name
RV770
GT215-400-A2
GPU Variant
RV770 PRO
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.727 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
144 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
2.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.1
