ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon 550X

VS

ATI FireGL V8600

AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 159W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X +183%

1.247 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Mar 2019

FireGL

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1082 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

868 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

8

-

320

Shading Units

512

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

50W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Lexa

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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