ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 vs NVIDIA Quadro4 380 XGL

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 and NVIDIA Quadro4 380 XGL 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 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 27% higher core clock speed: 350 MHz vs 275 MHz
  • 2.5x more texture fill rate: 2.8 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 150 nm
  • Around 66% higher memory clock speed: 850 MHz vs 512 MHz
  • 11.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 82 vs 7
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 3 February 2005 vs 12 November 2002
Core clock speed 350 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate 2.8 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm vs 150 nm
Memory clock speed 850 MHz vs 512 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 82 vs 7

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro4 380 XGL

  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 225 vs 223
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 225 vs 223

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility FireGL V5000
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro4 380 XGL

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
82
7
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
223
225
Name ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 NVIDIA Quadro4 380 XGL
PassMark - G3D Mark 82 7
PassMark - G2D Mark 223 225

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 NVIDIA Quadro4 380 XGL

Essentials

Architecture R400 Celsius
Code name M26 NV18 A4
Launch date 3 February 2005 12 November 2002
Place in performance rating 781 783
Type Mobile workstation Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 350 MHz
Core clock speed 350 MHz 275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 8
Texture fill rate 2.8 GTexel / s 1.1 GTexel / s
Transistor count 120 million 29 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 8x
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 9.0b 8.0
OpenGL 2.0 1.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 13.6 GB / s 8.19 GB / s
Memory bus width 350 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 850 MHz 512 MHz
Memory type 128 DDR
Shared memory 0

Technologies

PCIe