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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

ATI FireGL V8600

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: 11105 vs 839
Around 95% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 791 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	11105 vs 839
PassMark - G2D Mark	791 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

11105

839

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

791

406

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980	ATI FireGL V8600
PassMark - G3D Mark	11105	839
PassMark - G2D Mark	791	406
Geekbench - OpenCL	34883
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	363	365
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