RTX A40 vs ATI Mobility FireGL V3200

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Primary details

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

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Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameM24GA102
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date1 June 2004 (20 years ago)5 October 2020 (4 years ago)

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 cores610752
Core clock speed400 MHz1305 MHz
Boost clock speed400 MHz1755 MHz
Number of transistors75 million28,300 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data300 Watt
Texture fill rate1.600589.7
Floating-point processing powerno data37.74 TFLOPS
ROPs4112
TMUs4336
Tensor Coresno data336
Ray Tracing Coresno data84

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
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data8-pin EPS

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 typeDDR2GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB48 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz1812 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s695.8 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 outputs3x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0b12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2004 5 October 2020
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 48 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 8 nm

RTX A40 has an age advantage of 16 years, a 38300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1525% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility FireGL V3200 and RTX A40. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility FireGL V3200 is a mobile workstation card while RTX A40 is a workstation one.


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