ATI FirePro V7800 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro V7800 and NVIDIA GeForce 7950 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 7950 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V7800

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 27% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 550 MHz
3.8x more texture fill rate: 50.4 GTexel / s vs 13.2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
2.9x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
5.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2028 vs 348
2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 307 vs 153

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 April 2010 vs 6 August 2006
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 550 MHz
Texture fill rate	50.4 GTexel / s vs 13.2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2028 vs 348
PassMark - G2D Mark	307 vs 153

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT

2.3x lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro V7800
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2028

348

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

307

153

Name	ATI FirePro V7800	NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	2028	348
PassMark - G2D Mark	307	153
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 7950 GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Cypress	G71
Launch date	26 April 2010	6 August 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$759	$114.95
Place in performance rating	1035	1036
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Price now		$114.95
Value for money (0-100)		2.99
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,016.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1440
Texture fill rate	50.4 GTexel / s	13.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	65 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	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB / s	44.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3