AMD Radeon R9 290 vs ATI FireMV 2250

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290

ATI FireMV 2250

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

ATI FireMV 2250 's Advantages

Lower TDP (32W vs 275W)

Score

Radeon R9 290

VS

FireMV 2250

Graphics Card

Nov 2013

Release Date

Jan 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FireMV Multi-View

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

-

160

TMUs

4

64

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

32W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x S-Video 1x DMS-59

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

RV516

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

3.0

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