ATI FireMV 2250 vs NVIDIA NVS 300
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 and 512MB VRAM NVS 300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireMV 2250 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)
NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages
Released 4 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (18W vs 32W)
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
Jan 2011
FireMV Multi-View
Generation
NVS
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
790 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
12.64GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
-
Shading Units
16
4
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.080 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.160 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
39.36 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
32W
TDP
18W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
Outputs
1x DMS-59
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV516
GPU Name
GT218
-
GPU Variant
GT218-670-B1
R500
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.107 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
3.0
Shader Model
4.1
