AMD Radeon HD 7970 vs ATI FireGL V7600

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970

ATI FireGL V7600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 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 7970 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V7600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (127W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 +886%

3.789 TFLOPS

FireGL V7600

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970

VS

FireGL V7600

Graphics Card

Dec 2011

Release Date

Aug 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

4

-

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

384.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

127W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x 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 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

R600

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

R600 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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