ATI FireGL V3600 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

ATI FireGL V3600

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (73W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V3600

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +1777%

2.703 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Jun 2007

Release Date

Dec 2010

FireGL

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

3

Compute Units

24

-

120

Shading Units

1536

8

TMUs

96

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

4.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

144.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

73W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV630

GPU Name

Cayman

RV630 GL

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.39 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

153 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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