ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

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ATI FireGL V8600

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X 640SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon 550X 640SP 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1071MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 159W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X 640SP +211%

1.371 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon 550X 640SP

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Apr 2018

FireGL

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1019 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1071 MHz

868 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

10

-

320

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.14 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1371 GFLOPS

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1371 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.68 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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