ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

ATI FireGL V8600

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +358%

2.016 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Jul 2011

FireGL

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

14

-

320

Shading Units

1120

16

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

50.40 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.016 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

159W

TDP

300W

450 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Barts

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

Barts XT (215-0798000)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

255 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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