FirePro V8700 and FireGL V7100 - video card comparison

FirePro V8700

FireGL V7100

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

R400 (2004−2008)

GPU code name

RV770

R480

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

September 2008

December 2004

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

750 MHz

507 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,200.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

130 nm

Number of transistors

956 million

160 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

-

Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

91 Watt

Texture fill rate

30.00

6.084

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3400 MHz

1040 MHz

Memory bandwidth

108.8 GB/s

33.28 GB/s

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

9.0b (9_2)

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

Shader Model

4.1

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A