ATI FireGL V3600 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

ATI FireGL V3600

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V3600

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +2531%

3.789 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 2007

Release Date

Jan 2013

FireGL

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

500 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

16.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

3

Compute Units

32

-

120

Shading Units

2048

8

TMUs

128

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

4.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

144.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

73W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

RV630

GPU Name

Tahiti

RV630 GL

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.39 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

153 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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