Arc A770 vs ATI FireGL 9700 X1-128

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated155
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data55.34
Power efficiencyno data10.34
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameR300DG2-512
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 July 2002 (22 years ago)12 October 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$329

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 data4096
Core clock speed325 MHz2100 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2400 MHz
Number of transistors110 million21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data225 Watt
Texture fill rate2.600614.4
Floating-point processing powerno data19.66 TFLOPS
ROPs8128
TMUs8256
Tensor Coresno data512
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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 8xPCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed310 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth19.84 GB/s512.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors2x DVI1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2002 12 October 2022
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 16 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 6 nm

Arc A770 has an age advantage of 20 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2400% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FireGL 9700 X1-128 and Arc A770. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL 9700 X1-128 is a workstation graphics card while Arc A770 is a desktop one.


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