ATI FirePro M7820 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro M7820 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M 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 Quadro FX 2800M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro M7820

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
Around 17% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 600 MHz
8.3x more pipelines: 800 vs 96
3.9x better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 288 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 75 Watt
2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2709 vs 1963
Around 38% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2709 vs 1963

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 May 2010 vs 1 December 2009
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 600 MHz
Pipelines	800 vs 96
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops vs 288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 75 Watt
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 2000 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2709 vs 1963
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2709 vs 1963

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M

Around 3% higher texture fill rate: 28.8 GTexel / s vs 28 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	28.8 GTexel / s vs 28 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro M7820
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2709

1963

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

2709

1963

Name	ATI FirePro M7820	NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M
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	1963
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2709	1963
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		417
PassMark - G2D Mark		42
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3259
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3259

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro M7820	NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Broadway	G92
Launch date	1 May 2010	1 December 2009
Place in performance rating	1276	1277
Type	Mobile workstation	Mobile workstation
Price now		$49.95
Value for money (0-100)		22.55
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops	288 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	800	96
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s	28.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	754 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	large	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
PowerMizer 8.0