ATI Radeon 9250 vs HD 8770M

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	849	1609
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name	Mars	RV280
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	1 April 2013 (13 years ago)	1 March 2004 (22 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	384	no data
Core clock speed	775 MHz	240 MHz
Boost clock speed	825 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	950 million	36 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	19.80	0.96
Floating-point processing power	0.6336 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	4
TMUs	24	4
L1 Cache	96 KB	no data
L2 Cache	256 KB	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop size	medium sized	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	AGP 8x
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	3.2 GB/s
Shared memory	-	no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	8.1
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.4
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

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no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 April 2013	1 March 2004
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	150 nm