NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs ATI FireGL V8600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 13.1x more texture fill rate: 144 billion / sec vs 11.01 GTexel / s
  • 6.4x more pipelines: 2048 vs 320
  • 11.3x better floating-point performance: 4,981 gflops vs 440.3 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
  • 13.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 11100 vs 839
  • Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 792 vs 406
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 19 September 2014 vs 14 May 2007
Texture fill rate 144 billion / sec vs 11.01 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 320
Floating-point performance 4,981 gflops vs 440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 11100 vs 839
PassMark - G2D Mark 792 vs 406

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V8600

  • Around 4% lower typical power consumption: 159 Watt vs 165 Watt
  • 248x more memory clock speed: 1736 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 159 Watt vs 165 Watt
Memory clock speed 1736 MHz vs 7.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V8600

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
11100
839
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
792
406
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 ATI FireGL V8600
PassMark - G3D Mark 11100 839
PassMark - G2D Mark 792 406
Geekbench - OpenCL 34824
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 110.006
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1348.307
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 9.194
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 37.443
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 477.015
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 9566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3335
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 9566
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3335
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4321

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 ATI FireGL V8600

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GM204 R600
Launch date 19 September 2014 14 May 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $549 $1,899
Place in performance rating 366 367
Price now $605.06
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 21.18

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1216 MHz
CUDA cores 2048
Floating-point performance 4,981 gflops 440.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 2048 320
Texture fill rate 144 billion / sec 11.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 165 Watt 159 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 720 million
Core clock speed 688 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support
VGA аnalog display support 1

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 10.5" (26.7 cm) 254 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pins 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.0
OpenCL 1.2
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB / s 111.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 7.0 GB/s 1736 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR4
Shared memory 0

Technologies

3D Vision
Adaptive Vertical Sync
BatteryBoost
CUDA
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
Surround