ATI FireGL V8600 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

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ATI FireGL V8600

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 57.66GB/s)

Lower TDP (159W vs 165W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 X2 +20%

0.528 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon HD 3870 X2

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jan 2008

FireGL

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

901 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

57.66GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

4

-

320

Shading Units

320

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

13.20 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

13.20 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

105.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

R680

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

R680 XT (215-0708017)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

N/A

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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