ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5250

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 and ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 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 Radeon HD 3470

ATI Mobility FireGL V5250

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 51% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 450 MHz
3.3x more pipelines: 40 vs 12
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 90 nm
Around 14% higher memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 700 MHz
3.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 93 vs 27

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2008 vs 1 January 2007
Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 450 MHz
Pipelines	40 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 90 nm
Memory clock speed	800 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	93 vs 27

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL V5250

Around 99% higher texture fill rate: 5.4 GTexel / s vs 2.72 GTexel / s
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 252 vs 250

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	5.4 GTexel / s vs 2.72 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	252 vs 250

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL V5250

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

250

252

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470	ATI Mobility FireGL V5250
PassMark - G3D Mark	93	27
PassMark - G2D Mark	250	252

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470	ATI Mobility FireGL V5250
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	R500
Code name	M82	M66
Launch date	7 January 2008	1 January 2007
Place in performance rating	673	675
Type	Laptop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	54.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	40	12
Texture fill rate	2.72 GTexel / s	5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 Watt
Transistor count	181 million	157 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-II	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	330 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	DDR2 / GDDR3	128
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
Powerplay 6.0