GeForce GTX 970 vs FireMV 2250 PCIe x1
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
FireMV 2250 PCIe x1 's Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 148W)
Score
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Jan 2007
GeForce 900
Generation
FireMV Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x1
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
1664
Shading Units
-
104
TMUs
4
56
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
148W
TDP
32W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
RV516
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
-
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
398 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.6
OpenGL
2.1
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
3.0
