ATI FireGL V5600 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (89W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)

1000 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V5600

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +950%

2.016 TFLOPS

FireGL V5600

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Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

Aug 2007

Release Date

Jul 2011

FireGL

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1100 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

35.20GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

3

Compute Units

14

120

Shading Units

1120

8

TMUs

56

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

6.400 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV630

GPU Name

Barts

RV630 GL

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.39 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

153 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Board Design

89W

TDP

300W

250 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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