AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT vs ATI FireMV 2250

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock975MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

ATI FireMV 2250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (32W vs 185W)

Score

Radeon HD 7870 XT

VS

FireMV 2250

Graphics Card

Nov 2012

Release Date

Jan 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

FireMV Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

925 MHz

Base Clock

-

975 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

24

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

-

96

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

31.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

93.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.995 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

748.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV516

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

32W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x S-Video 1x DMS-59

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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