ATI FirePro 2270 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FirePro 2270 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FirePro 2270 's Advantages
Released 11 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (9.600GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
80 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Jan 2011
Release Date
Oct 1999
FirePro Multi-View
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
600 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
SDR
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
9.600GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
1
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
80
Shading Units
-
8
TMUs
4
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
96.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
15W
TDP
Unknown
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DMS-59
Outputs
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cedar
GPU Name
NV10
Cedar WS
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
59 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
7.0
4.4
OpenGL
1.2
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
-
