Radeon PRO W7700 vs Riva 128 PCI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated61
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data56.20
Power efficiencyno data18.30
Architectureno dataRDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV3Navi 32
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 April 1997 (27 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 speed100 MHz1900 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2600 MHz
Number of transistors4 million28,100 million
Manufacturing process technology350 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)4 Watt190 Watt
Texture fill rate0.1499.2
Floating-point processing powerno data31.95 TFLOPS
ROPs196
TMUs1192
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
Lengthno data241 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 amount4 MB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed100 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth1.6 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 DB13W34x DisplayPort 2.1

API compatibility

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

DirectX5.012 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGL1.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 April 1997 13 November 2023
Maximum RAM amount 4 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 350 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 4 Watt 190 Watt

Riva 128 PCI has 4650% lower power consumption.

PRO W7700, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 26 years, a 409500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 6900% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Riva 128 PCI and Radeon PRO W7700. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Riva 128 PCI is a desktop card while Radeon PRO W7700 is a workstation one.


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NVIDIA Riva 128 PCI
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