Radeon RX 5700 XT vs ATI FirePro V8800

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated87
Place by popularitynot in top-10072
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data47.75
Power efficiencyno data13.21
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameCypressNavi 10
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date7 April 2010 (14 years ago)7 July 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,499 $399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores16002560
Core clock speed825 MHz1605 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1905 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)208 Watt225 Watt
Texture fill rate66.00304.8
Floating-point processing power2.64 TFLOPS9.754 TFLOPS
ROPs3264
TMUs80160

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 4.0 x16
Length267 mm272 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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1150 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth147.2 GB/s448.0 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 HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Readyno data+
Multi Monitorno data+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 April 2010 7 July 2019
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 208 Watt 225 Watt

ATI V8800 has 8.2% lower power consumption.

RX 5700 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 471.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V8800 and Radeon RX 5700 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V8800 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon RX 5700 XT is a desktop one.


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