NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs AMD FireStream 9250

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

AMD FireStream 9250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 970 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 63.55GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (148W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +292%

3.92 TFLOPS

FireStream 9250

1 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

FireStream 9250

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

FireStream

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

993 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

63.55GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

1664

Shading Units

800

104

TMUs

40

56

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1000 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

200.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

150W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

RV770

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.1

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