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ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (73W vs 165W)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1216MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
1928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 980 +3359%
4.981 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Jun 2007
Release Date
Sep 2014
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
Base Clock
1127 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz

Memory

256MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s

Render Config

3
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
120
Shading Units
2048
8
TMUs
128
4
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
64 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

73W
TDP
165W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV630
GPU Name
GM204
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
398 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
5.2
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
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