ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

ATI FireGL V8600

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +1517%

7.119 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

Nov 2018

FireGL

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

868 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/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

49.44 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

159W

TDP

175W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

Polaris 30

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

80 nm

Process Size

12 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

1.2

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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