ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

ATI FireGL V8600

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +1002%

4.849 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Nov 2013

FireGL

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

512bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

40

-

320

Shading Units

2560

16

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

275W

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

Hawaii

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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