ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

ATI FireGL V8600

AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 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 R9 280X +830%

4.096 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon R9 280X

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

850 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

250W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 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

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Tahiti

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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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