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