GeForce GTS 450 vs FireGL V8600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Lower TDP (106W vs 159W)

FireGL V8600 Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 57.73GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 +36%

601

FireGL V8600

440

GeForce GTS 450

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 400

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

SM Count

-

192

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

159W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

R600

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full)

4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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