ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD FirePro D500
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 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 274W)
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
FirePro D500
+406%
2.227 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Jan 2014
FireGL
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
384bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
243.8GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
24
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
1536
16
TMUs
96
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.20 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
69.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.227 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
556.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
159W
TDP
274W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
Tahiti
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE GL
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
