ATI FirePro V5800 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Comparative analysis of ATI FirePro V5800 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI FirePro V5800

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V5800

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 5% higher core clock speed: 690 MHz vs 660 MHz
Around 25% higher pipelines: 800 vs 640
Around 31% better floating-point performance: 1,104.0 gflops vs 2x 422.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Around 49% lower typical power consumption: 74 Watt vs 110 Watt
2.4x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 272 vs 187
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1176 vs 478

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 April 2010 vs 1 September 2008
Core clock speed	690 MHz vs 660 MHz
Pipelines	800 vs 640
Floating-point performance	1,104.0 gflops vs 2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	74 Watt vs 110 Watt
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 1700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	272 vs 187
PassMark - G3D Mark	1176 vs 478

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

7.6x more texture fill rate: 2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 27.6 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec vs 27.6 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI FirePro V5800
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

272

187

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1176

478

Name	ATI FirePro V5800	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3319
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3319
Geekbench - OpenCL	3099
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2135
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2135
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3352
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3352
PassMark - G2D Mark	272	187
PassMark - G3D Mark	1176	478

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI FirePro V5800	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale
Code name	Juniper	M88
Launch date	26 April 2010	1 September 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$479
Place in performance rating	868	869
Type	Workstation	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	690 MHz	660 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,104.0 gflops	2x 422.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	800	640
Texture fill rate	27.6 GTexel / s	2x 10.56 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	74 Watt	110 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	666 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2x 512 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	2x 54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory		0