ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA NVS 300
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 512MB VRAM NVS 300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)
104 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Lower TDP (18W vs 73W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V3600
+269%
0.144 TFLOPS
NVS 300
0.039 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Jan 2011
FireGL
Generation
NVS
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
790 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
12.64GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
2
120
Shading Units
16
8
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.080 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.160 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
39.36 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
73W
TDP
18W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
No outputs
Outputs
1x DMS-59
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
GT218
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
GT218-670-B1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
