ATI FireMV 2250 vs Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1068not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.44no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Ultra-Threaded SE (2005−2007)
GPU code nameStoney RidgeRV516
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 June 2016 (8 years ago)2007 (17 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 cores192no data
Core clock speedno data600 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data105 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt32 Watt
Texture fill rateno data2.400
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data170 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR2
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data800 MBps
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x S-Video, 1x DMS-59

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 28 nm 90 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 32 Watt

R4 (Stoney Ridge) has a 221.4% more advanced lithography process, and 113.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge) and FireMV 2250. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R4 (Stoney Ridge) is a notebook card while FireMV 2250 is a desktop one.


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