ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 vs ATI FireGL V5100

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 and ATI FireGL V5100 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 V5250

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 252 vs 250
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 January 2007 vs 1 May 2004
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 252 vs 250

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V5100

  • 3.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 93 vs 27
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 93 vs 27

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility FireGL V5250
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V5100

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
27
93
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
252
250
Name ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 ATI FireGL V5100
PassMark - G3D Mark 27 93
PassMark - G2D Mark 252 250

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 ATI FireGL V5100

Essentials

Architecture R500 R400
Code name M66 R423
Launch date 1 January 2007 1 May 2004
Place in performance rating 675 677
Type Mobile workstation Workstation

Technical info

Boost clock speed 400 MHz
Core clock speed 450 MHz 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 12
Texture fill rate 5.4 GTexel / s 5.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count 157 million 160 million

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 None

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0c
OpenGL 2.0 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 11.2 GB / s 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 330 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 700 MHz 700 MHz
Memory type 128 DDR
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Powerplay 6.0