AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs ATI FireGL V5600

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

ATI FireGL V5600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)

1928 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (89W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +1873%

3.789 TFLOPS

FireGL V5600

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

FireGL V5600

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Aug 2007

Sea Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/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

3.200 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

89W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

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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