ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs ATI FireGL V8600

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (159W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +427%

2.32 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

May 2007

Evergreen

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

4

-

1600

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

294W

TDP

159W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

R600

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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