FirePro A300 vs ATI Radeon VE

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1531not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.03no data
ArchitectureRage 6 (2000−2007)TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameRage 6Trinity GL
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date19 February 2001 (23 years ago)6 June 2012 (12 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 data384
Core clock speed183 MHz760 MHz
Boost clock speedno data905 MHz
Number of transistors30 million1,303 million
Manufacturing process technology180 nm32 nm
Power consumption (TDP)23 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate0.5521.72
Floating-point processing powerno data0.695 TFLOPS
ROPs18
TMUs324

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 4xPCIe 2.0 x16
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount32 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed183 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth2.928 GB/sno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX7.011.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGL1.34.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 19 February 2001 6 June 2012
Chip lithography 180 nm 32 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 23 Watt 65 Watt

ATI VE has 182.6% lower power consumption.

FirePro A300, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 462.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon VE and FirePro A300. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon VE is a desktop card while FirePro A300 is a workstation one.


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