AMD Radeon R9 390 vs AMD FireStream 9250

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 390 and AMD FireStream 9250 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 390

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 6.4x more texture fill rate: 160.0 GTexel / s vs 25 GTexel / s
  • 3.2x more pipelines: 2560 vs 800
  • 5.1x better floating-point performance: 5,120 gflops vs 1,000.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
  • 7.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8910 vs 1165
  • Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 797 vs 465
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 18 June 2015 vs 16 June 2008
Texture fill rate 160.0 GTexel / s vs 25 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2560 vs 800
Floating-point performance 5,120 gflops vs 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8910 vs 1165
PassMark - G2D Mark 797 vs 465

Reasons to consider the AMD FireStream 9250

  • Around 83% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 275 Watt
  • Around 99% higher memory clock speed: 1986 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 275 Watt
Memory clock speed 1986 MHz vs 1000 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 390
GPU 2: AMD FireStream 9250

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8910
1165
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
797
465
Name AMD Radeon R9 390 AMD FireStream 9250
PassMark - G3D Mark 8910 1165
PassMark - G2D Mark 797 465
Geekbench - OpenCL 43803
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 120.267
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 3164.164
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 11.097
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 116.473
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 607.381
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10445
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3708
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 3949

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R9 390 AMD FireStream 9250

Essentials

Architecture GCN 2.0 TeraScale
Code name Grenada RV770
Design AMD Radeon R9 300 Series
Launch date 18 June 2015 16 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $329
Place in performance rating 307 305
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Compute units 40
Floating-point performance 5,120 gflops 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 2560 800
Stream Processors 2560
Texture fill rate 160.0 GTexel / s 25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 275 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 6,200 million 956 million
Core clock speed 625 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support PCIe 3.0
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 275 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1 x 6-pin, 1 x 8-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 10.1
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 384 GB/s 63.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 512 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 1986 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
DDMA audio
FreeSync
HD3D
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TrueAudio
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
ZeroCore