FirePro D700 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Place in the ranking	149	367
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	19.83	no data
Power efficiency	7.91	3.54
Architecture	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)	GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code name	Vega 10	Tahiti
Market segment	Workstation	Workstation
Release date	27 June 2017 (7 years ago)	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$999	no data

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 cores	4096	2048
Core clock speed	1382 MHz	850 MHz
Boost clock speed	1600 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	12,500 million	4,313 million
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	274 Watt
Texture fill rate	409.6	108.8
Floating-point processing power	13.11 TFLOPS	3.482 TFLOPS
ROPs	64	32
TMUs	256	128

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).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	267 mm	279 mm
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	no 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 type	HBM2	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	6 GB
Memory bus width	2048 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	945 MHz	1370 MHz
Memory bandwidth	483.8 GB/s	263.0 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 Connectors	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	12 (11_1)
Shader Model	6.4	5.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	2.0	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.125	1.2.131

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	34.27	14.01
Recency	27 June 2017	18 January 2014
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	6 GB
Chip lithography	14 nm	28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	300 Watt	274 Watt

Vega Frontier Edition has a 144.6% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, a 166.7% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

FirePro D700, on the other hand, has 9.5% lower power consumption.

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is our recommended choice as it beats the FirePro D700 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.