NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs ATI FireGL V5600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 and 512MB VRAM FireGL V5600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)

1928 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V5600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (89W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +2494%

4.981 TFLOPS

FireGL V5600

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

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FireGL V5600

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Aug 2007

GeForce 900

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

2048

Shading Units

120

128

TMUs

8

64

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

RV630

GM204-400-A1

GPU Variant

RV630 GL

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

165W

TDP

89W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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