Radeon RX 580 and FireGL V8600 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 580

FireGL V8600

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

Polaris 20

R600

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

April 2017

May 2007

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 8-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1340 MHz

-

Core clock speed

1257 MHz

688 MHz

Floating-point performance

6,175 gflops

440.3 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

5,700 million

720 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

2304

320

Power consumption (TDP)

185 Watt

159 Watt

Texture fill rate

193.0

11.01

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR4

Maximum RAM amount

8 GB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

512 Bit

Memory clock speed

8000 MHz

1736 MHz

Memory bandwidth

256.0 GB/s

111.1 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort

1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_0)

10.0 (10_0)

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

6.4

4.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A