ATI FireGL V8650 vs ATI Radeon X1550 PCI
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 PCI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V8650 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 4.256GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Jan 2007
FireGL
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
DDR2
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
4.256GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.808 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
1.808 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
27W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
RV516
R600 V8650
(215RGIDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
80 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
2.1
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
