FireGL 8800 vs Radeon R5 (Kaveri)

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Primary details

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

Place in performance ranking1015not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 1.1 (2014)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameKaveriR200
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date4 June 2014 (10 years ago)14 August 2001 (22 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores256no data
Core clock speed514 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speed626 MHzno data
Number of transistors2410 Million60 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Texture fill rateno data2.400

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon R5 (Kaveri) and FireGL 8800 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataAGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data128 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data580 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data9.28 GB/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 data1x DVI, 1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)8.1
OpenGLno data1.4
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkanno dataN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2014 14 August 2001
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 (Kaveri) and FireGL 8800. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R5 (Kaveri) is a notebook card while FireGL 8800 is a workstation one.


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