ATI Radeon 7000 PCI vs FirePro V3900

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking944not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.32no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code nameTurksRV100
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date7 February 2012 (12 years ago)19 February 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 cores480no data
Core clock speed650 MHz133 MHz
Number of transistors716 million30 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)199 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate15.600.4
Floating-point processing power0.624 TFLOPSno data
ROPs81
TMUs243

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).

Bus supportPCIe 2.1 x16no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCI
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Form factorhalf height / half lengthno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB32 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz133 MHz
Memory bandwidth28 GB/s2.128 GB/s

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 DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort count1no data
Dual-link DVI support+-
HD сomponent video output+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)7.0
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.41.3
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 February 2012 19 February 2001
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 32 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 180 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 199 Watt 23 Watt

FirePro V3900 has an age advantage of 10 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 350% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 7000 PCI, on the other hand, has 765.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V3900 and Radeon 7000 PCI. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V3900 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 7000 PCI is a desktop one.


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