Radeon PRO W7700 vs ATI SDR PCI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated41
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data66.45
Power efficiencyno data21.03
ArchitectureRage 6 (2000−2007)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameRage 6Navi 32
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 June 2000 (24 years ago)13 November 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$999

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 coresno data3072
Core clock speed166 MHz1900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2600 MHz
Number of transistors30 million28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt190 Watt
Texture fill rate1499.2
Floating-point processing powerno data31.95 TFLOPS
ROPs296
TMUs6192
Ray Tracing Coresno data48

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).

InterfacePCIPCIe 4.0 x16
Length165 mm241 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 8-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 typeSDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 MB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed166 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth2.656 GB/s576.0 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 Connectors1x VGA, 1x S-Video4x DisplayPort 2.1

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/A2.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2000 13 November 2023
Maximum RAM amount 32 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 180 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 190 Watt

ATI SDR PCI has 726.1% lower power consumption.

PRO W7700, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 23 years, a 51100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 3500% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon SDR PCI and Radeon PRO W7700. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon SDR PCI is a desktop card while Radeon PRO W7700 is a workstation one.


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