ATI FirePro M7820 vs ATI Radeon HD 4890

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro M7820 and ATI Radeon HD 4890 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro M7820

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 190 Watt
  • Around 3% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 3900 MHz
Launch date 1 May 2010 vs 2 April 2009
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 190 Watt
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 3900 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4890

  • Around 21% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • Around 21% higher texture fill rate: 34.0 GTexel / s vs 28 GTexel / s
  • Around 21% better floating-point performance: 1,360.0 gflops vs 1,120.0 gflops
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 34.0 GTexel / s vs 28 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 1,360.0 gflops vs 1,120.0 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro M7820
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 4890

Name ATI FirePro M7820 ATI Radeon HD 4890
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
PassMark - G3D Mark 1539
PassMark - G2D Mark 66
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3348
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3348

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI FirePro M7820 ATI Radeon HD 4890

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 TeraScale
Code name Broadway RV790
Launch date 1 May 2010 2 April 2009
Place in performance rating 1256 1258
Type Mobile workstation Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $249

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 1,360.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 800 800
Texture fill rate 28 GTexel / s 34.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 190 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 959 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Length 241 mm

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.1
OpenGL 4.4 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s 124.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 3900 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0