FireGL V7200: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started FireGL V7200 sales 1 October 2005 at a recommended price of $1,279 . This is an Ultra-Threaded SE architecture desktop card based on 90 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.65 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 41.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FireGL V7200: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Ultra-Threaded SE (2005−2007) | |
| GPU code name | R520 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 1 October 2005 (19 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,279 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
FireGL V7200's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FireGL V7200's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 600 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 312 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 90 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Texture fill rate | 9.600 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 16 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FireGL V7200 and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 229 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on FireGL V7200: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 650 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 41.6 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FireGL V7200. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by FireGL V7200, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with FireGL V7200 according to our statistics.
