FireStream 9250: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

FireStream 9250 provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 2.63% of a leader's which is RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell.

Summary

AMD started FireStream 9250 sales 16 June 2008. This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.99 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 63.55 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about FireStream 9250: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking827
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Power efficiency1.41of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameRV770
Market segmentWorkstation
Release date16 June 2008 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

FireStream 9250's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FireStream 9250's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores800of 960 (GeForce GTX 660)
Core clock speed625 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors956 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)150 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate25.00of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power1 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs16of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs40of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache160 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache256 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FireStream 9250 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on FireStream 9250: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount1 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed993 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth63.55 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on FireStream 9250. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display Connectors1x DVI

API and SDK support

APIs supported by FireStream 9250, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.1
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of FireStream 9250. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

FireStream 9250
2.63

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

FireStream 9250 Samples: 2 1164

Gaming performance

Let's see how good FireStream 9250 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Closest competitors

FireStream 9250's performance relative to its closest rivals among server graphics cards.


GRID K340 103.8
NVS 810 102.28
FireStream 9250 100
Quadro 2000D 84.03

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FireStream 9250 is NVS 810, which is faster by 2% and higher by 12 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to FireStream 9250:

GRID K340 103.8
NVS 810 102.28
FireStream 9250 100
Quadro 2000D 84.03
Quadro 2000 81.37

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