AMD FirePro S7000 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro S7000 and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S7000

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 76% higher texture fill rate: 76 GTexel / s vs 43.2 billion / sec
  • 10x more pipelines: 1280 vs 128
  • 5.6x better floating-point performance: 2,432 gflops vs 432.1 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 4.4x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1100 MHz
  • 5.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4524 vs 769
  • Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 705 vs 366
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 August 2012 vs 28 March 2008
Texture fill rate 76 GTexel / s vs 43.2 billion / sec
Pipelines 1280 vs 128
Floating-point performance 2,432 gflops vs 432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4524 vs 769
PassMark - G2D Mark 705 vs 366

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

  • Around 78% higher core clock speed: 1688 MHz vs 950 MHz
  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 140 Watt vs 350 Watt
Core clock speed 1688 MHz vs 950 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 140 Watt vs 350 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro S7000
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4524
769
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
705
366
Name AMD FirePro S7000 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
PassMark - G3D Mark 4524 769
PassMark - G2D Mark 705 366
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 52.282
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1275.287
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 66.159
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 271.967

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD FirePro S7000 NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Tesla
Code name Pitcairn G92
Launch date 27 August 2012 28 March 2008
Launch price (MSRP) $1,249 $299
Place in performance rating 410 411
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 950 MHz 1688 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,432 gflops 432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 1280 128
Texture fill rate 76 GTexel / s 43.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 350 Watt 140 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 754 million
CUDA cores 128
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI
DisplayPort count 1
Dual-link DVI support
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 3.0 PCI-E 2.0
Form factor Full Height / Full Length
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 292 mm 10.5" (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
SLI options 2-way3-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB / s 70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz 1100 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
SLI