ATI FireGL V3600 vs Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking771not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameKaveri SpectreRV630
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date14 January 2014 (10 years ago)28 June 2007 (17 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

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 cores512120
Core clock speed720 MHz600 MHz
Number of transistorsno data390 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data73 Watt
Texture fill rateno data4.800
Floating-point processing powerno data0.144 TFLOPS
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data8

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR2
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus widthno data128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data16 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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 January 2014 28 June 2007
Chip lithography 28 nm 65 nm

R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) has an age advantage of 6 years, and a 132.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) and FireGL V3600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) is a desktop card while FireGL V3600 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)
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