AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs ATI FirePro V8700
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 and 1024MB VRAM FirePro V8700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 108.8GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (130W vs 151W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7850
+46%
1.761 TFLOPS
FirePro V8700
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2012
Release Date
Sep 2008
Southern Islands
Generation
FirePro
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
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1200 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
108.8GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
10
-
-
-
1024
Shading Units
800
64
TMUs
40
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.52 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
55.04 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
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-
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1.761 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
110.1 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
130W
TDP
151W
300 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
2x DisplayPort 1.0
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
RV770
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
RV770 XT
(215-0669049)
GCN 1.0
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
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5.1
Shader Model
4.1
