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.

 

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
93
93
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
250
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 675 678
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