FireGL V8650 vs Radeon R9 295X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
2496 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8650
440
Radeon R9 295X2
+1202%
5733
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Apr 2014
FireGL
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
868 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
512bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
320.0GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
44
320
Shading Units
2816
16
TMUs
176
16
ROPs
64
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
65.15 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
179.2 GTexel/s
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.733 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
716.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
500W
200 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
Vesuvius
R600 V8650
(215RGIDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
