Radeon HD 7720 OEM vs Quadro FX 2000

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameNV30Barts
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date21 January 2003 (21 year ago)15 March 2013 (11 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 coresno data800
Core clock speed400 MHz840 MHz
Number of transistors125 million1,700 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data150 Watt
Texture fill rate3.20033.60
Floating-point processing powerno data1.344 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs840

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data198 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x Molexno 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 typeDDR2GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount128 MB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz1050 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s134.4 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0a11.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 January 2003 15 March 2013
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 40 nm

HD 7720 OEM has an age advantage of 10 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 2000 and Radeon HD 7720 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 2000 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon HD 7720 OEM is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000
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