ATI FireGL 8700 vs ATI Radeon 7500

Comparative analysis of ATI FireGL 8700 and ATI Radeon 7500 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI FireGL 8700

ATI Radeon 7500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL 8700

Around 15% higher texture fill rate: 2 GTexel / s vs 1.74 GTexel / s
Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 540 MHz vs 460 MHz

Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s vs 1.74 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	540 MHz vs 460 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7500

Around 16% higher core clock speed: 290 MHz vs 250 MHz

Core clock speed	290 MHz vs 250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FireGL 8700
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 7500

Name	ATI FireGL 8700	ATI Radeon 7500
PassMark - G3D Mark		3
PassMark - G2D Mark		35

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FireGL 8700	ATI Radeon 7500
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 7	Rage 7
Code name	R200	RV200
Launch date	14 August 2001	14 August 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	1658
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	290 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s	1.74 GTexel / s
Transistor count	60 million	60 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 4x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	8.1	8.1
OpenGL	1.4	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	8.64 GB / s	7.36 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	540 MHz	460 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR