Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 vs ATI FirePro V8800

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameCypressTahiti
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date7 April 2010 (14 years ago)31 January 2012 (12 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,499 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 cores16001536
Core clock speed825 MHz925 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)208 Watt185 Watt
Texture fill rate66.0088.80
Floating-point processing power2.64 TFLOPS2.842 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8096

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 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length267 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB3 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth147.2 GB/s240.0 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 Connectors4x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.05.1
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.21.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 April 2010 31 January 2012
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 3 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 208 Watt 185 Watt

HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 50% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 42.9% more advanced lithography process, and 12.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V8800 and Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V8800 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 1 is a desktop one.


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