Radeon R7 Graphics vs Quadro FX 2800M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1086not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.99no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameG92Spectre
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date1 December 2009 (15 years ago)11 January 2014 (10 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 cores96512
Core clock speed600 MHz720 MHz
Boost clock speedno data980 MHz
Number of transistors754 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate28.8031.36
Floating-point processing power0.288 TFLOPS1.004 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4832

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 sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)IGP
Widthno dataIGP

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth64 GB/sno data
Shared memory-no 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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model4.06.0
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2009 11 January 2014
Chip lithography 65 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 15 Watt

R7 Graphics has an age advantage of 4 years, a 132.1% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 2800M and Radeon R7 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 2800M is a mobile workstation card while Radeon R7 Graphics is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800M
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