ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs ATI FireGL V3600

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870

ATI FireGL V3600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

680 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (73W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 +733%

1.2 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2007

Radeon R700

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

3

-

800

Shading Units

120

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

73W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

RV630

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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