ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT vs ATI FirePro V8700 Duo
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V8700 Duo to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FirePro V8700 Duo 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 106.0GB/s)
480 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (151W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 2900 XT
0.476 TFLOPS
FirePro V8700 Duo
+152%
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2007
Release Date
Unknown
Radeon R600
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
828 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
106.0GB/s
Bandwidth
108.8GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
320
Shading Units
800
16
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.89 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
11.89 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
475.5 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
215W
TDP
151W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
RV770
R600 XT
(215RGMDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
RV770 XT
(215-0669049)
TeraScale
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
