ATI FireGL V8600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800 GX2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)
192 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (159W vs 197W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8600
+14%
0.44 TFLOPS
GeForce 9800 GX2
0.384 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Mar 2008
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
16
320
Shading Units
128
16
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
384.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
159W
TDP
197W
450 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
G92
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
G92-450-A2
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
