ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

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ATI FireGL V8600

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 230 OEM 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Lower TDP (19W vs 159W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600 +120%

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

0.2 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon R5 230 OEM

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Dec 2013

FireGL

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

64bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

2

-

320

Shading Units

160

16

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

159W

TDP

19W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Caicos

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

67 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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