NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs AMD FireStream 9250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 550 Ti 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 550 Ti 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 9 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (98.50GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)
Lower TDP (116W vs 150W)
AMD FireStream 9250 's Advantages
608 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
0.691 TFLOPS
FireStream 9250
+44%
1 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2011
Release Date
Jun 2008
GeForce 500
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1026 MHz
Memory Clock
993 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
98.50GB/s
Bandwidth
63.55GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
4
SM Count
-
192
Shading Units
800
32
TMUs
40
24
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
384 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
7.200 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.00 GPixel/s
28.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
691.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1000 GFLOPS
57.60 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
200.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
116W
TDP
150W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF116
GPU Name
RV770
GF116-400-A1
GPU Variant
RV770 PRO
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
55 nm
1.17 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
238 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
