ATI FireGL V8600 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 228W)
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8600
0.44 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+518%
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Mar 2010
FireGL
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/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
27.20 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
159W
TDP
228W
450 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
Cypress
R600 V8600
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
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
