FirePro V8700: specs and benchmarks
Summary
ATI started FirePro V8700 sales 11 September 2008 at a recommended price of $1,499 . This is a TeraScale architecture desktop card based on 55 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 1 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 0.85 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 108.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 254 mm. Two 6-pin power connectors are required, and power consumption is at 151 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FirePro V8700: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | |
| GPU code name | RV770 | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 11 September 2008 (16 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $1,499 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Detailed specifications
FirePro V8700's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro V8700's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 800 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 750 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 956 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 151 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 30.00 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.2 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (GA100) |
| TMUs | 40 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro V8700 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 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 254 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on FirePro V8700: 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 | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 850 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 108.8 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro V8700. 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 | 1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video |
API compatibility
APIs supported by FirePro V8700, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 (10_1) | |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro V8700 is Quadro K4000.
Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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