AMD FirePro 2270 PCIe x1: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 sales 31 January 2011. This is a TeraScale 2 architecture desktop card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.6 GHz are supplied, and together with 64 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 9.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x1 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 170 mm. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 15 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FirePro 2270 PCIe x1: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Cedar | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 31 January 2011 (13 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
FirePro 2270 PCIe x1's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro 2270 PCIe x1's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 80 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 600 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 292 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 4.800 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.096 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 192 (GRID A100A) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x1 | |
| Length | 170 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on FirePro 2270 PCIe x1: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 600 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 9.6 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro 2270 PCIe x1. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x DMS-59 |
API compatibility
APIs supported by FirePro 2270 PCIe x1, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro 2270 PCIe x1 is NVS 310.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
