AMD Radeon R9 285 vs ATI FireGL V8650

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AMD Radeon R9 285

ATI FireGL V8650

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 and 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 285 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +647%

3.29 TFLOPS

FireGL V8650

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

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FireGL V8650

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Aug 2007

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

4

-

1792

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

190W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

R600

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

R600 V8650 (215RGIDKA13FG)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

2.1

OpenCL

N/A

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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