ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

ATI FireGL V8600

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +514%

2.703 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Dec 2010

FireGL

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

24

-

320

Shading Units

1536

16

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Cayman

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

389 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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