ATI FireGL V8600 vs AMD FireStream 9270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 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 160W)
AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
FireStream 9270
+172%
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Nov 2008
FireGL
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
800
16
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
159W
TDP
160W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
RV770
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
RV770 XT
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
