ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 vs ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 and ATI Radeon X850 PRO 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 48% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 507 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
3.1x more memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 1040 MHz
3.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 236 vs 73
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 362 vs 157

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 1 December 2004
Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 507 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 1040 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	236 vs 73
PassMark - G2D Mark	362 vs 157

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 PRO

Around 1% higher texture fill rate: 6.08 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	6.08 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X850 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

236

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

362

157

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470	ATI Radeon X850 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	236	73
PassMark - G2D Mark	362	157
Geekbench - OpenCL	2112
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1247
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1247
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1679

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470	ATI Radeon X850 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	R400
Code name	Park	R480
Launch date	7 January 2010	1 December 2004
Place in performance rating	1060	1062
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$279
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	507 MHz
Floating-point performance	120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s	6.08 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	160 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	33.3 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz	1040 MHz
Memory type	DDR2, GDDR2, DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0