ATI 3D Rage PRO PCI vs FirePro M2000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1082not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.33no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Rage 3 (1997−1998)
GPU code nameTurksRage 3
Market segmentMobile workstationDesktop
Release date1 July 2012 (12 years ago)1 March 1997 (27 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 cores480no data
Core clock speed500 MHz75 MHz
Number of transistors716 million8 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm350 nm
Power consumption (TDP)33 Wattno data
Texture fill rate12.000.08
Floating-point processing power0.48 TFLOPSno data
ROPs81
TMUs241

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 sizemedium sizedno data
Bus supportn/ano data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCI
Widthno data1-slot
Form factorchip-downno 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 typeGDDR5SDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB8 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed800 MHz75 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 GB/s600.0 MB/s
Shared memory-no 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x VGA
StereoOutput3D+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)6.0
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.41.1
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 July 2012 1 March 1997
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 8 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 350 nm

FirePro M2000 has an age advantage of 15 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 775% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro M2000 and 3D Rage PRO PCI. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro M2000 is a mobile workstation card while 3D Rage PRO PCI is a desktop one.


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