ATI FireMV 2250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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 140W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
May 2009
FireMV Multi-View
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
12
-
Shading Units
96
4
TMUs
48
4
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
32W
TDP
140W
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
G92
-
-
-
R500
Architecture
Tesla
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.107 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
324 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
