ATI Radeon X1950 PRO vs ATI FirePro V3700

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1337
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.30
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameRV620RV570
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date8 August 2008 (16 years ago)1 October 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$99 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 cores40no data
Core clock speed800 MHz575 MHz
Number of transistors181 million330 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)32 Watt66 Watt
Texture fill rate3.2006.900
Floating-point processing power0.064 TFLOPSno data
ROPs412
TMUs412

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Length168 mmno data
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed950 MHz690 MHz
Memory bandwidth15.2 GB/s44.16 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 Connectors2x DVI2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 August 2008 1 October 2006
Chip lithography 55 nm 80 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 32 Watt 66 Watt

ATI V3700 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 45.5% more advanced lithography process, and 106.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V3700 and Radeon X1950 PRO. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FirePro V3700 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon X1950 PRO is a desktop one.


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