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).

 

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 1033 1035
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