ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 vs ATI FireGL V5100

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 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. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

ATI FireGL V5100

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 51% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 450 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 700 MHz

Launch date	7 January 2008 vs 1 May 2004
Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 700 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V5100

Around 99% higher texture fill rate: 5.4 GTexel / s vs 2.72 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	5.4 GTexel / s vs 2.72 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V5100

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

250

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470	ATI FireGL V5100
PassMark - G3D Mark	93	93
PassMark - G2D Mark	250	250

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470	ATI FireGL V5100
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	R400
Code name	M82	R423
Launch date	7 January 2008	1 May 2004
Place in performance rating	677	680
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	54.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	40
Texture fill rate	2.72 GTexel / s	5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	160 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		211 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	DDR2 / GDDR3	DDR
Shared memory	0