ATI FireGL V8600 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

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ATI FireGL V8600

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 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 286W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2 +172%

1.2 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Aug 2008

FireGL

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

10

-

320

Shading Units

800

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

12.00 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

286W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

R700

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

R700 XT (215-0669045)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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