AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 vs ATI FireGL V8600

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 and ATI FireGL V8600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 80 nm
  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 159 Watt
  • Around 38% higher memory clock speed: 2400 MHz vs 1736 MHz
  • Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 585 vs 406
  • 5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4809 vs 839
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 14 November 2018 vs 14 May 2007
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 159 Watt
Memory clock speed 2400 MHz vs 1736 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 585 vs 406
PassMark - G3D Mark 4809 vs 839

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V8600

  • 2.3x more core clock speed: 688 MHz vs 300 MHz
Core clock speed 688 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V8600

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
585
406
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4809
839
Name AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 ATI FireGL V8600
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 8870
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8870
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3586
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3586
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359
Geekbench - OpenCL 22421
PassMark - G2D Mark 585 406
PassMark - G3D Mark 4809 839

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 ATI FireGL V8600

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 TeraScale
Code name Vega 12 R600
Launch date 14 November 2018 14 May 2007
Place in performance rating 368 365
Type Workstation Workstation
Launch price (MSRP) $1,899

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1190 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 688 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt 159 Watt
Floating-point performance 440.3 gflops
Pipelines 320
Texture fill rate 11.01 GTexel / s
Transistor count 720 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 254 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.6 3.3

Memory

Memory clock speed 2400 MHz 1736 MHz
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 111.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 512 Bit
Memory type GDDR4