ATI FireGL T2-128 vs ATI FirePro V8700

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameRV770RV350
Market segmentWorkstationWorkstation
Release date11 September 2008 (16 years ago)1 October 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$1,499 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 cores800no data
Core clock speed750 MHz398 MHz
Number of transistors956 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)151 Wattno data
Texture fill rate30.001.592
Floating-point processing power1.2 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs404

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 x16AGP 8x
Length254 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed850 MHz297 MHz
Memory bandwidth108.8 GB/s9.504 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 DVI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.1 (10_1)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model4.1no data
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 September 2008 1 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 55 nm 130 nm

ATI V8700 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 136.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FirePro V8700 and FireGL T2-128. We've got no test results to judge.


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