ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

VS

ATI FireGL V8600

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8990 OEM 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 375W)

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM +830%

4.096 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Apr 2013

FireGL

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

868 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

384bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/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

32.00 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

375W

450 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Malta

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

Malta XT (215-0849026)

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

365 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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