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ATI FirePro M7820 vs ATI FirePro M7740

ATI FirePro M7820

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The AMD ATI FirePro M7820 is a professional graphics card for mobile workstations. It is based on the same chip as the Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and is therefore positioned in the high end segment for large laptops. The certified drivers of the FirePro M7820 offer better performance in professional applications (like DCC or CAD). OpenGL performance has also been optimized with regards to synthetic and gaming benchmarks.

ATI FirePro M7740

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The AMD ATI FirePro M7740 is a high-end professional graphics adapter for laptops. It suppports certified drivers for professional CAD (Computer aided Design) and DCC (Digital Content Creation) applications. In addition to the guarantee that these programs run flawlessly, the driver and BIOS are also optimized for OpenGL performance and even enables a few professional features in the GPU (e.g., anti-aliasing).

The core of the FirePro M7740 is based on the consumer Mobility Radeon HD 4860 under the RV740 architecture. The GPU is produced at TSMC in 40nm and offers 640 (or 128 5-D) unified shaders that support DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.1. As for graphics memory, the card supports up to 1 GB of GDDR5 with a 128 bit memory bus. Due to the relatively fast speeds from GDDR5, the relatively small memory bus should not be a noticeable bottle neck.

The ATI FirePro / FireGL M7740 was introduced in the Dell Precision M6400 mobile workstation as an alternative to the already available Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M. AMD was able to compare both graphics cards in a subset of the SPECviewperf 10 OpenGL benchmark. The FirePro M7740 in the Dell Precision M6400 was compared to an Nvidia Quadro FX 3700M in an HP 8730w. According to AMD, the M7740 won in 8 subsets of the benchmark (ugnx-01, tcvis-01, sw-02, proe-04, maya-02, ensight-03, 3dsmax-04) and in the Composite Score (approx. 75 versus 63).

Compared to desktop workstation cards, the M7740 should perform better than the FirePro V7750, the latter of which includes only 320 stream processors and GDDR3 memory.

Like the Mobility Radeon HD 4860, the Mobility Fire Pro M7740 features the UVD 2 video processor for decoding of HD video streams. The GPU should be fully compliant to Blu-ray specs with the possibility to decode up two streams simultaneously.

ATI FirePro M7820ATI FirePro M7740
FirePro M7000 Series
FirePro M7820 800 @ 0.7 GHz128 Bit @ 1000 MHz
FirePro M7740 640 @ 0.65 GHz128 Bit @ 1000 MHz
FirePro M7820 800 @ 0.7 GHz128 Bit @ 1000 MHz
FirePro M7740 640 @ 0.65 GHz128 Bit @ 1000 MHz
ArchitectureTerascale 2Terascale 1
Pipelines800 - unified640 - unified
Core Speed700 MHz650 MHz
Memory Speed1000 MHz1000 MHz
Memory Bus Width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory TypeGDDR5GDDR5
Shared Memorynono
APIDirectX 11, Shader 5.0DirectX 10.1, Shader 4.1
technology40 nm40 nm
Notebook Sizelargelarge
Date of Announcement01.05.2010 04.08.2009
Link to Manufacturer Pagewww.amd.comwww.amd.com
CodenameRV740
Max. Amount of Memory1024 MB
Transistors826 Million
FeaturesOpenGL 3.1

Benchmarks

3DMark Vantage
3DM Vant. Perf. total + ATI FirePro M7740
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. total
min: 6551     avg: 6626     median: 6626 (2%)     max: 6701 Points
3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX + ATI FirePro M7740
3DMark Vantage - 3DM Vant. Perf. GPU no PhysX
min: 5818     avg: 5896     median: 5896 (3%)     max: 5974 Points
3DMark 2001SE - 3DMark 2001 - Standard
34814 Points (36%)
3DMark 03 - 3DMark 03 - Standard
40427 Points (21%)
3DMark 05 - 3DMark 05 - Standard
17192 Points (19%)
3DMark 06 3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + ATI FirePro M7820
3DMark 06
min: 12000     avg: 12532     median: 12531.5 (17%)     max: 13063 Points
3DMark 06 - Standard 1280x1024 + ATI FirePro M7740
min: 11990     avg: 12110     median: 12109.5 (16%)     max: 12229 Points
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - 3dsmax
48.2 Points (100%)
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - Catia
37.9 Points (80%)
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - EnSight
46.7 Points (99%)
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - Maya
186.6 Points (100%)
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - Pro/Engeneer
45.1 Points (88%)
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SolidWorks
10.6 Points (16%)
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - UGS Teamcenter
33.7 Points (87%)
SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - SPEC Viewperf 10.0 - UGS NX
48.9 Points (100%)
Cinebench R10 Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit) + ATI FirePro M7740
Cinebench R10 - Cinebench R10 Shading (32bit)
min: 6516     avg: 6664     median: 6663.5 (5%)     max: 6811 Points

Average Benchmarks ATI FirePro M7820 → 100% n=1

Average Benchmarks ATI FirePro M7740 → 97% n=1

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