AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs ATI FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
2496 additional rendering cores
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (159W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+1202%
5.733 TFLOPS
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
May 2007
Volcanic Islands
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
512bit
Memory Bus
512bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
2816
Shading Units
320
176
TMUs
16
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
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-
-
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
159W
900 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
R600
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
GCN 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
2.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
6.3
Shader Model
4.0
