NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS vs ATI FireGL V8600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32MB VRAM GeForce2 GTS and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 5.312GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2000
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 2
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 4x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
166 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
32MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
512bit
5.312GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
-
-
-
-
Shading Units
320
8
TMUs
16
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
800.0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
1.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
159W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
NV15
GPU Name
R600
GeForce2 GTS
GPU Variant
R600 V8600
Celsius
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
180 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.025 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
88 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
7.0
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
1.5
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
-
Shader Model
4.0
