RTX A4000 Mobile vs ATI FireGL 8700

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated105
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data24.19
ArchitectureRage 7 (2001−2006)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameR200GA104
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date14 August 2001 (23 years ago)12 April 2021 (3 years ago)

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 data5120
Core clock speed250 MHz1140 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1680 MHz
Number of transistors60 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data115 Watt
Texture fill rate2.000268.8
Floating-point processing powerno data17.2 TFLOPS
ROPs480
TMUs8160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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 datalarge
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x16
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 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed270 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth8.64 GB/s384.0 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 VGAPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX8.112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.44.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 August 2001 12 April 2021
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 8 nm

RTX A4000 Mobile has an age advantage of 19 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1775% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FireGL 8700 and RTX A4000 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL 8700 is a workstation card while RTX A4000 Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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ATI FireGL 8700
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