ATI Radeon HD 3850 vs ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 3850 and ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 3850

ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3850

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 668 MHz vs 280 MHz
160x more pipelines: 320 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
4.2x more memory clock speed: 1660 MHz vs 400 MHz
78.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 393 vs 5

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	19 November 2007 vs 29 September 2001
Core clock speed	668 MHz vs 280 MHz
Pipelines	320 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1660 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	393 vs 5

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

52.4x more texture fill rate: 560 MTexel / s vs 10.69 GTexel / s
2.8x lower typical power consumption: 27 Watt vs 75 Watt
2.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 86 vs 30

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	560 MTexel / s vs 10.69 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	27 Watt vs 75 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	86 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 3850
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

393

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Radeon HD 3850	ATI Mobility FireGL 7800
PassMark - G3D Mark	393	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	30	86
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3345
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3345

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 3850	ATI Mobility FireGL 7800
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Rage 7
Code name	RV670	M7
Launch date	19 November 2007	29 September 2001
Launch price (MSRP)	$179
Place in performance rating	1453	1454
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	668 MHz	280 MHz
Floating-point performance	427.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	320	2
Texture fill rate	10.69 GTexel / s	560 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	27 Watt
Transistor count	666 million	60 million
Boost clock speed		280 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	208 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.0	7.0
OpenGL	3.3	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	53.1 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1660 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	64 / 128
Shared memory		0