NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs AMD FireStream 9250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • Around 60% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 625 MHz
  • 7x more texture fill rate: 176 billion / sec vs 25 GTexel / s
  • 3.5x more pipelines: 2816 vs 800
  • 6.1x better floating-point performance: 6,060 gflops vs 1,000.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB
  • 11.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13805 vs 1165
  • Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 853 vs 465
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2 June 2015 vs 16 June 2008
Core clock speed 1000 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate 176 billion / sec vs 25 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2816 vs 800
Floating-point performance 6,060 gflops vs 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 13805 vs 1165
PassMark - G2D Mark 853 vs 465

Reasons to consider the AMD FireStream 9250

  • Around 67% lower typical power consumption: 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • 283.7x more memory clock speed: 1986 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 1986 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPU 2: AMD FireStream 9250

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
13805
1165
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
853
465
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMD FireStream 9250
PassMark - G3D Mark 13805 1165
PassMark - G2D Mark 853 465
Geekbench - OpenCL 42988
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 145.843
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1722.98
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 11.661
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 37.16
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 788.464
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3338
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 10471
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3695
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3338
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 5754

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti AMD FireStream 9250

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GM200 RV770
Launch date 2 June 2015 16 June 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $649
Place in performance rating 306 305
Price now $679.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 23.43

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1075 MHz
Core clock speed 1000 MHz 625 MHz
CUDA cores 2816
Floating-point performance 6,060 gflops 1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 2816 800
Texture fill rate 176 billion / sec 25 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 8,000 million 956 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI
G-SYNC support
HDCP
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
SLI options 4x
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin + 8-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 336.5 GB / s 63.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7.0 GB/s 1986 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
SLI
Surround