ATI FirePro M7820 vs NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro M7820 and NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500 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.

ATI FirePro M7820

NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro M7820

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.9x more core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 240 MHz
14.6x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 1.92 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 150 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
8x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 500 MHz

Launch date	1 May 2010 vs 1 October 2001
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 240 MHz
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 1.92 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro M7820
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500

Name	ATI FirePro M7820	NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500
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		3
PassMark - G2D Mark		116

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro M7820	NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Kelvin
Code name	Broadway	NV20 A5
Launch date	1 May 2010	1 October 2001
Place in performance rating	1291	1294
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$349
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	240 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s	1.92 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	57 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		183 mm
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	8.0
OpenGL	4.4	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0