FireStream 9250 vs ATI Radeon HD 4860

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated770
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.39
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameRV790RV770
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date9 September 2009 (15 years ago)16 June 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores640800
Core clock speed700 MHz625 MHz
Number of transistors959 million956 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)130 Watt150 Watt
Texture fill rate22.4025.00
Floating-point processing power0.896 TFLOPS1 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs3240

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB1 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed750 MHz993 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s63.55 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x DVI

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)10.1 (10_1)
Shader Model4.14.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 9 September 2009 16 June 2008
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 1 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 130 Watt 150 Watt

ATI HD 4860 has an age advantage of 1 year, and 15.4% lower power consumption.

FireStream 9250, on the other hand, has a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4860 and FireStream 9250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 4860 is a desktop card while FireStream 9250 is a workstation one.


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