Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs FireMV 2250 PCIe x1
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 256MB VRAM FireMV 2250 PCIe x1 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Advantages
Released 3 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
1600 additional rendering cores
FireMV 2250 PCIe x1 Advantages
Lower TDP (32W vs 228W)
Score
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
Jan 2007
Evergreen
Generation
FireMV Multi-View
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x1
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
1600
Shading Units
-
80
TMUs
4
32
ROPs
4
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
-
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.400 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
32W
550 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
1x S-Video
1x DMS-59
1x DMS-59
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
RV516
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
40 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
4.4
OpenGL
2.1
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
Shader Model
3.0
