ATI FirePro V4800 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro V4800 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI FirePro V4800

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V4800

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
3.4x more core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 230 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 140 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
18x more memory clock speed: 3600 MHz vs 200 MHz
150.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1204 vs 8
3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 456 vs 152

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 April 2010 vs 17 March 2004
Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz vs 200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1204 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	456 vs 152

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

59.4x more texture fill rate: 920 MTexel / s vs 15.5 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	920 MTexel / s vs 15.5 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro V4800
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1204

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

456

152

Name	ATI FirePro V4800	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
PassMark - G3D Mark	1204	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	456	152
Geekbench - OpenCL	1670
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	5.886
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	321.782
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.529
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	14.184
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	56.777
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1512
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2211
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3326
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1512
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2211
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3326

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro V4800	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rankine
Code name	Redwood	NV34 B1
Launch date	26 April 2010	17 March 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$189	$36.99
Place in performance rating	1092	1094
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Price now		$36.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.30
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	230 MHz
Floating-point performance	620.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	140 nm
Pipelines	400
Texture fill rate	15.5 GTexel / s	920 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	69 Watt
Transistor count	627 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	168 mm	152 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz	200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR