AMD Radeon RX 480 vs ATI FireGL V7700

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 480 and ATI FireGL V7700 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 480

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 44% higher core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 777 MHz
  • 14.7x more texture fill rate: 182.3 GTexel / s vs 12.43 GTexel / s
  • 7.2x more pipelines: 2304 vs 320
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 55 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 2252 MHz
  • 13.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8624 vs 660
  • Around 84% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 777 vs 422
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 June 2016 vs 19 November 2007
Core clock speed 1120 MHz vs 777 MHz
Texture fill rate 182.3 GTexel / s vs 12.43 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2304 vs 320
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 2252 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8624 vs 660
PassMark - G2D Mark 777 vs 422

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V7700

  • 85.7x better floating-point performance: 497.3 gflops vs 5.8 TFLOPs
Floating-point performance 497.3 gflops vs 5.8 TFLOPs

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 480
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V7700

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8624
660
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
777
422
Name AMD Radeon RX 480 ATI FireGL V7700
PassMark - G3D Mark 8624 660
PassMark - G2D Mark 777 422
Geekbench - OpenCL 39226
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 103.851
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 769.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 7.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 67.879
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 597.772
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11172
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11172
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 4165

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 480 ATI FireGL V7700

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 TeraScale
Code name Ellesmere RV670
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 29 June 2016 19 November 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $229 $899
Place in performance rating 354 356
Price now $299.99
Type Desktop Workstation
Value for money (0-100) 39.12

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1266 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1120 MHz 777 MHz
Floating-point performance 5.8 TFLOPs 497.3 gflops
GPU Power 110 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 2304 320
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 182.3 GTexel / s 12.43 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 666 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support n / a
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Length 241 mm 254 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12 10.0
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 3.3
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 72.1 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 2252 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR4
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
Enduro
FreeSync
FRTC
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HD3D
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore