ATI FireGL V8600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 256 SDR
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 32MB VRAM GeForce 256 SDR to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 1.144GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Oct 1999
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 256
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 4x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
143 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
32MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
SDR
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
1.144GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
-
16
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
480.0 MPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
480.0 MTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
159W
TDP
Unknown
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x VGA
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
NV10
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Celsius
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
220 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.017 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
139 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
7.0
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
1.2
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
