ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI FireMV 2250

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ATI Radeon HD 5970

ATI FireMV 2250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

ATI FireMV 2250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (32W vs 294W)

Score

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

FireMV 2250

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Jan 2007

Evergreen

Generation

FireMV Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1600

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

32W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x S-Video 1x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

RV516

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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