FireGL V8650 vs Radeon R9 270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 270 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock925MHz
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8650
440
Radeon R9 270
+438%
2368
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Nov 2013
FireGL
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
925 MHz
868 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
20
320
Shading Units
1280
16
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
74.00 GTexel/s
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.368 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
148.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
Curacao
R600 V8650
(215RGIDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
Curacao PRO
(215-0848000)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
