NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS vs ATI FireGL V3600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32MB VRAM GeForce2 GTS and 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.00GB/s vs 5.312GB/s)
120 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2000
Release Date
Jun 2007
GeForce 2
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 4x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
166 MHz
Memory Clock
500 MHz
Memory
32MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
5.312GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
120
8
TMUs
8
4
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
800.0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.400 GPixel/s
1.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
144.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
73W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x VGA
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
NV15
GPU Name
RV630
GeForce2 GTS
GPU Variant
RV630 GL
Celsius
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
180 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.025 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
88 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
7.0
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
1.5
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
-
Shader Model
4.0
