FirePro V8700 and FirePro V7900 - video card comparison

FirePro V8700

FirePro V7900

Architecture

TeraScale (2005−2013)

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

GPU code name

RV770

Cayman

Market segment

Workstation

Workstation

Release date

September 2008

May 2011

Bus support

-

PCIe 2.1 x16

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

750 MHz

725 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,200.0 gflops

1,856.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

55 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

956 million

2,640 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

800

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

151 Watt

151 Watt

Texture fill rate

30.00

58.00

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

3400 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

108.8 GB/s

160 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

4x DisplayPort

DisplayPort count

-

4

Dual-link DVI support

-

1

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

11.2 (11_0)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

3.3

4.4

Shader Model

4.1

5.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

StereoOutput3D

-

1