ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 vs ATI Radeon X600 PRO

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 and ATI Radeon X600 PRO 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 V5250

ATI Radeon X600 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL V5250

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 13% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
3.4x more texture fill rate: 5.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 17% higher memory clock speed: 700 MHz vs 600 MHz

Launch date	1 January 2007 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed	450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	5.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	700 MHz vs 600 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X600 PRO

2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 67 vs 27

Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	67 vs 27

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility FireGL V5250
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X600 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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Name	ATI Mobility FireGL V5250	ATI Radeon X600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	27	67
PassMark - G2D Mark	252	252

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility FireGL V5250	ATI Radeon X600 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	R500	Rage 9
Code name	M66	RV370
Launch date	1 January 2007	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	676	677
Type	Mobile workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	400 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	12
Texture fill rate	5.4 GTexel / s	1.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	157 million	107 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		36 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	11.2 GB / s	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	330 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Powerplay 6.0