ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD FirePro D300
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 2GB VRAM FirePro D300 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD FirePro D300 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (162.6GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (150W vs 159W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
FirePro D300
+394%
2.176 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Jan 2014
FireGL
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
1270 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
162.6GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
1280
16
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
159W
TDP
150W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
Pitcairn
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT GL
(215-0828073)
TeraScale
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
