Radeon R9 370 vs FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 370 's Advantages
Released 8 years late
Boost Clock975MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (110W vs 159W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 370
+467%
2496
FireGL V8600
440
Graphics Card
May 2015
Release Date
May 2007
Pirate Islands
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
925 MHz
Base Clock
-
975 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
179.2GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
4
1280
Shading Units
320
80
TMUs
16
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
31.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
78.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
2.496 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
156.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
110W
TDP
159W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Trinidad
GPU Name
R600
Trinidad PRO
(215-0870020)
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
80 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
