Quadro P4200 vs ATI FireGL V7100

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated211
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data17.54
ArchitectureR400 (2004−2008)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameR480GP104
Market segmentWorkstationMobile workstation
Release date1 December 2004 (19 years ago)21 February 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,099 no data

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 data2304
Core clock speed507 MHz1227 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1647 MHz
Number of transistors160 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)91 Watt100 Watt
Texture fill rate6.084237.2
Floating-point processing powerno data7.589 TFLOPS
ROPs1264
TMUs12144

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).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length211 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount256 MB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed520 MHz1502 MHz
Memory bandwidth33.28 GB/s192.3 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0b (9_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2004 21 February 2018
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 91 Watt 100 Watt

ATI FireGL V7100 has 9.9% lower power consumption.

Quadro P4200, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, a 3100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 712.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FireGL V7100 and Quadro P4200. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL V7100 is a workstation card while Quadro P4200 is a mobile workstation one.


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