AMD FirePro D500 vs ATI FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (159W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
+406%
2.227 TFLOPS
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
May 2007
FirePro
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
384bit
Memory Bus
512bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
1536
Shading Units
320
96
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
274W
TDP
159W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
R600
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
