AMD Radeon RX 480 vs ATI FireGL V8600

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 159W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +1225%

5.834 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

May 2007

Arctic Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

4

-

2304

Shading Units

320

144

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

150W

TDP

159W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

R600

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

232 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

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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