ATI FireGL V8600 vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

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ATI FireGL V8600

ATI Radeon HD 5970

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

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (159W vs 294W)

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

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +427%

2.32 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Nov 2009

FireGL

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

20

-

320

Shading Units

1600

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

294W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Hemlock

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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