ATI FirePro M7820 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro M7820 and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 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: 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).

ATI FirePro M7820

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro M7820

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 22% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 576 MHz
6.3x more pipelines: 800 vs 128
3.2x better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 345.6 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
3.1x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 155 Watt
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 768 MB
4.4x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 900 MHz

Launch date	1 May 2010 vs 8 November 2006
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 576 MHz
Pipelines	800 vs 128
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops vs 345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 155 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 768 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 900 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Around 31% higher texture fill rate: 36.8 billion / sec vs 28 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	36.8 billion / sec vs 28 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro M7820
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Name	ATI FirePro M7820	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
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		579
PassMark - G2D Mark		92
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3349

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro M7820	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Broadway	G80
Launch date	1 May 2010	8 November 2006
Place in performance rating	1276	1278
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$599
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	576 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops	345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	800	128
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s	36.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	155 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	681 million
CUDA cores		575
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	2x 6-pin
Length		270 mm
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	768 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	86.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	900 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
SLI