AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs ATI FireGL V8600

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 111.1GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (159W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +761%

3.789 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

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FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

May 2007

Southern Islands

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR4

384bit

Memory Bus

512bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

4

2048

Shading Units

320

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

R600

-

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Board Design

500W

TDP

159W

900 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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