NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs ATI FireGL V8600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 950 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 159W)

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 105.8GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 +314%

1.825 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

-

768

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

159W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

R600

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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