ATI FireGL V7200 vs Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking656not rated
Place by popularity30not in top-100
Power efficiency20.74no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Ultra-Threaded SE (2005−2007)
GPU code nameVega Raven RidgeR520
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date26 October 2017 (7 years ago)1 October 2005 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,279

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 cores512no data
Core clock speedno data600 MHz
Boost clock speed1200 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data312 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data9.600
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data16

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeno dataGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data650 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data41.6 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 Connectorsno data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_19.0c (9_3)
Shader Modelno data3.0
OpenGLno data2.1
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 26 October 2017 1 October 2005
Chip lithography 14 nm 90 nm

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) and FireGL V7200. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) is a notebook card while FireGL V7200 is a workstation one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
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