Radeon X1950 PRO and FireGL V8600 - video card comparison
Radeon X1950 PRO
FireGL V8600
Architecture
R500 (2005−2007)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
RV570
R600
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
October 2006
May 2007
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Core clock speed
575 MHz
688 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
330 million
720 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
320
Power consumption (TDP)
66 Watt
159 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.900
11.01
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
1380 MHz
1736 MHz
Memory bandwidth
44.16 GB/s
111.1 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
10.0 (10_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A