NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 vs ATI FireGL V8600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 780 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

Boost Clock902MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.4GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (159W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 780 +844%

4.156 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 780

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FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 700

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

863 MHz

Base Clock

-

902 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

288.4GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

2304

Shading Units

320

192

TMUs

16

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

43.30 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

173.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.156 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

173.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK110

GPU Name

R600

GK110-300-A1

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

7.08 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

561 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

159W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.5

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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