ATI FirePro V7900 SDI vs ATI FireGL V3600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FirePro V7900 SDI and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FirePro V7900 SDI 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
1160 additional rendering cores
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (73W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro V7900 SDI
+1188%
1.856 TFLOPS
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2011
Release Date
Jun 2007
FirePro
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
160.0GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
3
-
-
-
1280
Shading Units
120
80
TMUs
8
32
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
58.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1.856 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
464.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
73W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
4x SDI
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Cayman
GPU Name
RV630
Cayman PRO GL
GPU Variant
RV630 GL
TeraScale 3
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.64 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
389 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
-
-
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
