ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs ATI FireGL V3600

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870

ATI FireGL V3600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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 5870 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1480 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (73W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +1788%

2.72 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Jun 2007

Evergreen

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

3

-

1600

Shading Units

120

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

188W

TDP

73W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

RV630

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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