AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs ATI FireGL V3600

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970

ATI FireGL V3600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1928 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (73W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +2531%

3.789 TFLOPS

FireGL V3600

0.144 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

FireGL V3600

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Jun 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

3

-

2048

Shading Units

120

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

73W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

RV630

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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