ATI FireGL V8600 vs ATI FirePro V8800
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 2GB VRAM FirePro V8800 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 208W)
ATI FirePro V8800 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (147.2GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
FirePro V8800
+500%
2.64 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Apr 2010
FireGL
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
147.2GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
20
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
1600
16
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
26.40 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
66.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.640 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
528.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
159W
TDP
208W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.1
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
Cypress
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
Cypress XT GL
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
334 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
4.4
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
