AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs ATI FireMV 2250 PCIe x1

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 ATI FireMV 2250 PCIe x1

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

ATI FireMV 2250 PCIe x1 's Advantages

Lower TDP (32W vs 300W)

Score

Radeon HD 6870 X2

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FireMV 2250 PCIe x1

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

FireMV Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x1

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

-

56

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

RV516

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

32W

700 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x S-Video 1x DMS-59

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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