ATI FireMV 2250 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 250W)
AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
2048 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2007
Release Date
Oct 2013
FireMV Multi-View
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
850 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
400 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
2048
4
TMUs
128
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
2.400 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
32W
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV516
GPU Name
Tahiti
-
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
R500
Architecture
GCN 1.0
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.107 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
2.1
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
3.0
Shader Model
5.1
