ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

VS

ATI FireGL V8600

AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +510%

2.688 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Oct 2013

FireGL

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

868 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

20

-

320

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Curacao

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

212 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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