ATI FireGL V8600 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (159W vs 165W)
NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 13 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1440MHz
More VRAM (24GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
3264 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
A30 PCIe
+2245%
10.32 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Apr 2021
FireGL
Generation
Tesla Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
930 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1440 MHz
868 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
24GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
HBM2e
512bit
Memory Bus
3072bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
933.1GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
56
320
Shading Units
3584
16
TMUs
224
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
224
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
256 KB
L2 Cache
24 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
322.6 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
10.32 TFLOPS
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.32 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
5.161 TFLOPS
Board Design
159W
TDP
165W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
GA100
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
7 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
N/A
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
N/A
N/A
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
8.0
4.0
Shader Model
N/A
