ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 vs ATI FireGL V7100

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 and ATI FireGL V7100 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility FireGL V5000

ATI FireGL V7100

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL V5000

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
Around 14% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 82 vs 72

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	3 February 2005 vs 1 December 2004
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	82 vs 72

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V7100

Around 45% higher core clock speed: 507 MHz vs 350 MHz
2.2x more texture fill rate: 6.084 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 22% higher memory clock speed: 1040 MHz vs 850 MHz

Core clock speed	507 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	6.084 GTexel / s vs 2.8 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1040 MHz vs 850 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility FireGL V5000
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V7100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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Name	ATI Mobility FireGL V5000	ATI FireGL V7100
PassMark - G3D Mark	82	72
PassMark - G2D Mark	223	223

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility FireGL V5000	ATI FireGL V7100
Essentials
Architecture	R400	R400
Code name	M26	R480
Launch date	3 February 2005	1 December 2004
Place in performance rating	783	784
Type	Mobile workstation	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,099
Technical info
Boost clock speed	350 MHz
Core clock speed	350 MHz	507 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	2.8 GTexel / s	6.084 GTexel / s
Transistor count	120 million	160 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		91 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		211 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0b
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	13.6 GB / s	33.28 GB / s
Memory bus width	350 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	850 MHz	1040 MHz
Memory type	128	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
PCIe