ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 vs FirePro M6100

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	596	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)	Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name	Emerald	M7
Market segment	Mobile workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	27 May 2014 (10 years ago)	29 September 2001 (23 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 cores	896	2
Core clock speed	1100 MHz	280 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	280 MHz
Number of transistors	2,080 million	60 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	no data	27 Watt
Texture fill rate	61.60	0.56
Floating-point processing power	1.971 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	2
TMUs	56	2

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 size	large	medium sized
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	no 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 type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	200 MHz
Memory bandwidth	96 GB/s	6.4 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 Connectors

Portable Device Dependent

No outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_0)	7.0
Shader Model	6.5 (6.0)	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.3
OpenCL	2.1	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.170	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	27 May 2014	29 September 2001
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	150 nm

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