FirePro W7000: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
FirePro W7000 provides acceptable gaming and benchmark performance at 11.02% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
AMD started FirePro W7000 sales 13 June 2012 at a recommended price of $899 . This is a GCN 1.0 architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at designers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1.2 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 153.6 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 242 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 350 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about FirePro W7000: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 424 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 2.01 | |
| Power efficiency | 5.04 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 (2011−2020) | |
| GPU code name | Pitcairn | |
| Market segment | Workstation | |
| Release date | 13 June 2012 (12 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $899 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Detailed specifications
FirePro W7000's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of FirePro W7000's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 1280 | of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 950 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Number of transistors | 2,800 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 350 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 76.00 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 2.432 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX) |
| TMUs | 80 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of FirePro W7000 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).
| Bus support | PCIe 3.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | |
| Length | 242 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Form factor | full height / full length | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on FirePro W7000: 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 | 4 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1200 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on FirePro W7000. 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 | 4x DisplayPort | |
| StereoOutput3D | + | |
| DisplayPort count | 4 | |
| Dual-link DVI support | + |
API compatibility
APIs supported by FirePro W7000, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.2.131 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of FirePro W7000. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
GeekBench 5 OpenCL
Geekbench 5 is a widespread graphics card benchmark combined from 11 different test scenarios. All these scenarios rely on direct usage of GPU's processing power, no 3D rendering is involved. This variation uses OpenCL API by Khronos Group.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to FirePro W7000 is Quadro K4200, which is faster by 2% and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with FirePro W7000 according to our statistics.
