AMD FirePro S7100X vs ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Comparative analysis of AMD FirePro S7100X and ATI Radeon X1900 GT 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD FirePro S7100X

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 10 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 26% higher core clock speed: 723 MHz vs 575 MHz
  • 13.4x more texture fill rate: 92.54 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 256 MB
  • 4.2x more memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Launch date 25 May 2016 vs 1 May 2006
Core clock speed 723 MHz vs 575 MHz
Texture fill rate 92.54 GTexel / s vs 6.9 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 GT

  • Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 100 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 75 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD FirePro S7100X
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Name AMD FirePro S7100X ATI Radeon X1900 GT
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 64.888
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1283.973
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 5.781
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 70.708
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 315.677
PassMark - G3D Mark 146
PassMark - G2D Mark 409

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD FirePro S7100X ATI Radeon X1900 GT

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 R500
Code name Amethyst R580
Launch date 25 May 2016 1 May 2006
Place in performance rating 749 386
Type Workstation Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 723 MHz 575 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,961 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 2048
Texture fill rate 92.54 GTexel / s 6.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt
Transistor count 5,000 million 384 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB / s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5000 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3