ATI FireMV 2250 vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireMV 2250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (32W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1792 additional rendering cores

Score

FireMV 2250

VS

Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2007

Release Date

Jan 2013

FireMV Multi-View

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

925 MHz

400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

-

Shading Units

1792

4

TMUs

112

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

2.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

103.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

FP32 (float)

3.315 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

828.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV516

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

R500

Architecture

GCN 1.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.107 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

100 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

32W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x S-Video 1x DMS-59

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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