AMD Radeon HD 6850 vs ATI FireGL V8600

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6850

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (127W vs 159W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 +238%

1.488 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

May 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

4

-

960

Shading Units

320

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

37.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

1488 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

127W

TDP

159W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

R600

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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