ATI FirePro V7800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro V7800 and NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps).

ATI FirePro V7800

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V7800

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
4.7x more texture fill rate: 50.4 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
3x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1320 MHz
7.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2028 vs 258
Around 92% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 307 vs 160

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 April 2010 vs 9 March 2006
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	50.4 GTexel / s vs 10.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1320 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2028 vs 258
PassMark - G2D Mark	307 vs 160

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

3.1x lower typical power consumption: 48 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro V7800
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2028

258

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

307

160

Name	ATI FirePro V7800	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	2028	258
PassMark - G2D Mark	307	160
Geekbench - OpenCL	4894
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	15.084
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1124.892
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.448
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	39.448
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	181.538
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3721
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	63

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro V7800	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Cypress	G71
Launch date	26 April 2010	9 March 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$759
Place in performance rating	1008	1011
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,016.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1440
Texture fill rate	50.4 GTexel / s	10.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	48 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million	278 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	254 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB / s	42.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1320 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3