FireGL V3600: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
ATI started FireGL V3600 sales 28 June 2007 at a recommended price of $299. This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 0.5 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 16 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 73 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FireGL V3600: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | |
| GPU code name | RV630 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 28 June 2007 (18 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $299 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
FireGL V3600's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FireGL V3600's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 120 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 600 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 390 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 73 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 4.800 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.144 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 4 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 8 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L2 Cache | 64 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FireGL V3600 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on FireGL V3600: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR2 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 500 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 16 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FireGL V3600. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by FireGL V3600, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.0 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FireGL V3600 is Quadro FX 1800.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with FireGL V3600 according to our statistics.
