ATI FireMV 2250 vs AMD FireStream 9170
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9170 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 105W)
AMD FireStream 9170 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.33GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
Nov 2007
FireMV Multi-View
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
802 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
51.33GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
320
4
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.43 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
12.43 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
497.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
99.46 GFLOPS
Board Design
32W
TDP
105W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV516
GPU Name
RV670
-
-
-
R500
Architecture
TeraScale
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.107 billion
Transistors
0.666 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
192 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
4.1
