Radeon R7 Graphics vs FirePro W7000

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking424not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.01no data
Power efficiency5.04no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code namePitcairnSpectre
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date13 June 2012 (12 years ago)11 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$899 no data

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 cores1280512
Core clock speed950 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speedno data980 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)350 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate76.0031.36
Floating-point processing power2.432 TFLOPS1.004 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs8032

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 3.0no data
InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length242 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Form factorfull height / full lengthno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount4 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1200 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/sno data

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 DisplayPortNo outputs
StereoOutput3D+-
DisplayPort count4no data
Dual-link DVI support+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 13 June 2012 11 January 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 350 Watt 15 Watt

R7 Graphics has an age advantage of 1 year, and 2233.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro W7000 and Radeon R7 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro W7000 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon R7 Graphics is a desktop one.


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