ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

ATI FireGL V8600

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +761%

3.789 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Aug 2012

FireGL

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

32

-

320

Shading Units

2048

16

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

500W

450 W

Suggested PSU

900 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

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

New Zealand

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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