AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs ATI FireGL V5600

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AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition ATI FireGL V5600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)

1160 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (89W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +1233%

2.56 TFLOPS

FireGL V5600

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

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FireGL V5600

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Aug 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

3

1280

Shading Units

120

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

RV630

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

89W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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