ATI FireGL V8600: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started FireGL V8600 sales 14 May 2007 at a recommended price of $1,899. This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 80 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of GDDR4 memory clocked at 0.87 GHz are supplied, and together with 512 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 111.1 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 254 mm. One 6-pin and one 8-pin connectors are required, and power consumption is at 159 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FireGL V8600: 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 | R600 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 14 May 2007 (17 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,899 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
FireGL V8600's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FireGL V8600's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 320 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 688 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 720 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 80 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 159 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 11.01 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.4403 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FireGL V8600 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 | |
| Length | 254 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on FireGL V8600: 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 | GDDR4 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 512 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 868 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 111.1 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FireGL V8600. 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 | 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by FireGL V8600, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.0 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FireGL V8600 is Quadro FX 3800.
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 V8600 according to our statistics.
