RTX A1000 Mobile vs ATI Fire GL2

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated217
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data28.53
ArchitectureIBM (1999−2001)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameGT1000GA107
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date1 June 2000 (24 years ago)30 March 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,199 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data2048
Core clock speed205 MHz630 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1140 MHz
Manufacturing process technology250 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data60 Watt
Texture fill rate0.2172.96
Floating-point processing powerno data4.669 TFLOPS
ROPs132
TMUs164
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed120 MHz1375 MHz
Memory bandwidth7.68 GB/s176.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno data-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX6.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.24.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2000 30 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 250 nm 8 nm

RTX A1000 Mobile has an age advantage of 21 year, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 3025% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Fire GL2 and RTX A1000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Fire GL2 is a workstation card while RTX A1000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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