NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 vs ATI FireGL V8600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (159W vs 197W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9800 GX2

0.384 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600 +14%

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800 GX2

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

16

SM Count

-

128

Shading Units

320

64

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

197W

TDP

159W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

R600

G92-450-A2

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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