ATI FireGL X2-256 vs Radeon RX 560 Mobile

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking413not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation5.67no data
Power efficiency14.81no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameBaffinR360
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date5 January 2017 (7 years ago)1 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$99.99 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores896no data
Core clock speed1175 MHz380 MHz
Boost clock speed1275 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,000 million117 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)55 Wattno data
Texture fill rate58.973.040
Floating-point processing power1.887 TFLOPSno data
ROPs168
TMUs568

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 sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)AGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x Molex

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount4 GB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz350 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s22.4 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 outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)9.0
Shader Model6.4no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 January 2017 1 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 150 nm

RX 560 Mobile has an age advantage of 13 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 971.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 560 Mobile and FireGL X2-256. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 560 Mobile is a notebook card while FireGL X2-256 is a workstation one.


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