AMD FirePro W8000 vs ATI FireGL V8600

VS

AMD FirePro W8000

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM FirePro W8000 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W8000 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (159W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FirePro W8000 +633%

3.226 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

FirePro W8000

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

May 2007

FirePro

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

4

-

1792

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

159W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

4x DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

R600

Tahiti PRO 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

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