ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5725

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and ATI Mobility FireGL V5725 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 Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

ATI Mobility FireGL V5725

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Around 10% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 680 MHz
5.5x more texture fill rate: 30 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
6.7x more pipelines: 800 vs 120
7.4x better floating-point performance: 1,200.0 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
2.1x more memory clock speed: 3400 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 680 MHz
Texture fill rate	30 GTexel / s vs 5.44 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 120
Floating-point performance	1,200.0 gflops vs 163.2 gflops
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	3400 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL V5725

Name	ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition	ATI Mobility FireGL V5725
PassMark - G3D Mark		219
PassMark - G2D Mark		405

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition	ATI Mobility FireGL V5725
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	TeraScale
Code name	RV770	M86
Launch date	6 January 2009	1 January 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	393
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	680 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,200.0 gflops	163.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	800	120
Texture fill rate	30 GTexel / s	5.44 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	150 Watt
Transistor count	956 million	378 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	250 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	10.1	10.1
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	108.8 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3400 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory		0