ATI FireGL V3600 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking148not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation25.09no data
Power efficiency11.30no data
ArchitectureGCN 5.0 (2017−2020)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameVega 10RV630
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date14 August 2017 (7 years ago)28 June 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 $299

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3584120
Core clock speed1156 MHz600 MHz
Boost clock speed1471 MHzno data
Number of transistors12,500 million390 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)210 Watt73 Watt
Texture fill rate329.54.800
Floating-point processing power10.54 TFLOPS0.144 TFLOPS
ROPs644
TMUs2248

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeHBM2DDR2
Maximum RAM amount8 GB256 MB
Memory bus width2048 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz500 MHz
Memory bandwidth409.6 GB/s16 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model6.44.0
OpenGL4.63.3
OpenCL2.0N/A
Vulkan1.1.125N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2017 28 June 2007
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 256 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 210 Watt 73 Watt

RX Vega 56 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

ATI FireGL V3600, on the other hand, has 187.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 56 and FireGL V3600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 56 is a desktop card while FireGL V3600 is a workstation one.


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