ATI FireGL V3600 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 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 375W)
AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
Boost Clock1000MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
1928 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 280X2
+2744%
4.096 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Unknown
FireGL
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
950 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
500 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
384bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
32
-
-
-
120
Shading Units
2048
8
TMUs
128
4
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
73W
TDP
375W
250 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
No outputs
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
Tahiti
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
