AMD FirePro RG220A vs ATI FirePro M7820

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro RG220A and ATI FirePro M7820 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD FirePro RG220A

ATI FirePro M7820

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro RG220A

Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 50 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro M7820

Around 40% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 500 MHz
7x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
10x more pipelines: 800 vs 80
14x better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 80 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 80
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro RG220A
GPU 2: ATI FirePro M7820

Name	AMD FirePro RG220A	ATI FirePro M7820
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		4.956
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		600.944
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2709
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2709
Geekbench - OpenCL		15792
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		0.869
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		21.146
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		103.902

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD FirePro RG220A	ATI FirePro M7820
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	TeraScale 2
Code name	RV711	Broadway
Launch date	1 May 2010	1 May 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	1291
Type	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	700 MHz
Floating-point performance	80 gflops	1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	80	800
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s	28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	50 Watt
Transistor count	242 million	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	10.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0