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.

 

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
82
72
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
223
223
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 784 785
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