GeForce RTX 3060 vs ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated83
Place by popularitynot in top-1004
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data70.78
Power efficiencyno data17.88
ArchitectureRage 7 (2001−2006)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameM7GA106
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date29 September 2001 (23 years ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$329

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 cores23584
Core clock speed280 MHz1320 MHz
Boost clock speed280 MHz1777 MHz
Number of transistors60 million12,000 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)27 Watt170 Watt
Texture fill rate0.56199.0
Floating-point processing powerno data12.74 TFLOPS
ROPs248
TMUs2112
Tensor Coresno data112
Ray Tracing Coresno data28

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfaceAGP 4xPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 12-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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz1875 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s360.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX7.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.34.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 September 2001 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 27 Watt 170 Watt

ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 has 529.6% lower power consumption.

RTX 3060, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 19 years, a 19100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1775% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility FireGL 7800 and GeForce RTX 3060. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility FireGL 7800 is a mobile workstation card while GeForce RTX 3060 is a desktop one.


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