ATI FirePro V7800 vs NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro V7800 and NVIDIA GeForce G205M 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), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI FirePro V7800

NVIDIA GeForce G205M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V7800

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
22x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2028 vs 92
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 307 vs 294

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 April 2010 vs 8 January 2009
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	2028 vs 92
PassMark - G2D Mark	307 vs 294

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G205M

10.7x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 150 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro V7800
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce G205M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

2028

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

307

294

Name	ATI FirePro V7800	NVIDIA GeForce G205M
PassMark - G3D Mark	2028	92
PassMark - G2D Mark	307	294
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		989

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro V7800	NVIDIA GeForce G205M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Cypress	MCP79MX
Launch date	26 April 2010	8 January 2009
Launch price (MSRP)	$759
Place in performance rating	1033	1034
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
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	254 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5