GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs ATI FireGL V8600

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	70
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	41.81
Power efficiency	no data	15.33
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code name	R600	TU104
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	14 May 2007 (17 years ago)	9 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$1,899	$499

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	320	2560
Core clock speed	688 MHz	1605 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1770 MHz
Number of transistors	720 million	13,600 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	159 Watt	215 Watt
Texture fill rate	11.01	283.2
Floating-point processing power	0.4403 TFLOPS	9.062 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	64
TMUs	16	160
Tensor Cores	no data	320
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	40

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).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	254 mm	267 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 type	GDDR4	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	512 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	868 MHz	1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth	111.1 GB/s	448.0 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

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 Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
HDMI	-	+
G-SYNC support	-	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

no data

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API compatibility

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

DirectX	10.0 (10_0)	12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model	4.0	6.5
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	N/A	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2.131
CUDA	-	7.5

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	14 May 2007	9 July 2019
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	80 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	159 Watt	215 Watt

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