Arc A370M vs ATI FireGL V8650

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated380
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data26.35
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameR600DG2-128
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date14 May 2007 (17 years ago)30 March 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$2,799 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 cores3201024
Core clock speed688 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1550 MHz
Number of transistors720 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rate11.0199.20
Floating-point processing power0.4403 TFLOPS3.174 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs1664
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length254 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinno 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 typeGDDR4GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width512 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed868 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth111.1 GB/s112.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.0 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.6
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 May 2007 30 March 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 80 nm 6 nm

Arc A370M has an age advantage of 14 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1233.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FireGL V8650 and Arc A370M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL V8650 is a workstation card while Arc A370M is a notebook one.


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