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
- 11.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 13809 vs 1165
- Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 852 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 | 13809 vs 1165 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 852 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 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti | AMD FireStream 9250 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 13809 | 1165 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 852 | 465 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 42847 | |
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 | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 10.1 |
OpenGL | 4.5 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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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 |
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3D Vision | ||
Adaptive Vertical Sync | ||
CUDA | ||
GameStream | ||
GameWorks | ||
GeForce Experience | ||
GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
GPU Boost | ||
SLI | ||
Surround |