ATI FireMV 2250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8600 GS 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 47W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
Apr 2007
FireMV Multi-View
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
-
Shading Units
16
4
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.320 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.320 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
38.08 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
32W
TDP
47W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV516
GPU Name
G84
-
-
-
R500
Architecture
Tesla
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.107 billion
Transistors
0.289 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
169 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
