NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs ATI FireGL V8600

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages

Released 9 years late

Boost Clock1733MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (159W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 +1916%

8.873 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080

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FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1607 MHz

Base Clock

-

1733 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

4

2560

Shading Units

320

160

TMUs

16

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.9 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

277.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

138.6 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.873 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

277.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

R600

GP104-400-A1

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

80 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

159W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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