AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs ATI FireGL V7600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 512MB VRAM FireGL V7600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V7600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 +425%

2.016 TFLOPS

FireGL V7600

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

VS

FireGL V7600

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Aug 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

4

1120

Shading Units

320

56

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

R600

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

R600 GL

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

Board Design

151W

TDP

127W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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