AMD Radeon Pro W6900X vs ATI FireGL V8600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6900X and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6900X 's Advantages

Released 14 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock2150MHz

More VRAM (32GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

4800 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (159W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6900X +4904%

22.02 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6900X

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FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Aug 2021

Release Date

May 2007

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1825 MHz

Base Clock

-

2150 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

32GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

80

Compute Units

4

5120

Shading Units

320

TMUs

16

128

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

275.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

688.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

44.03 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

22.02 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

1376 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

R600

Navi 21 Pro-XTA

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

80 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

300W

TDP

159W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.1 4x Thunderbolt

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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