ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Duo Polaris 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 Pro Duo Polaris 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (16GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
Radeon Pro Duo Polaris
+1201%
5.728 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Apr 2017
FireGL
Generation
Radeon Pro GCN
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
16GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
36
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
2304
16
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
39.78 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
5.728 TFLOPS
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.728 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
358.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
159W
TDP
250W
450 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
Ellesmere
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
Ellesmere Gemini GL
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
80 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
