AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI FireGL V8650

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970

ATI FireGL V8650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +514%

2.703 TFLOPS

FireGL V8650

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

FireGL V8650

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Aug 2007

Northern Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

4

-

1536

Shading Units

320

96

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

R600

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

R600 V8650 (215RGIDKA13FG)

TeraScale 3

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

389 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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