Radeon Graphics 448SP vs ATI FireGL V5100

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureR400 (2004−2008)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameR423Renoir
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date1 May 2004 (20 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data448
Core clock speed450 MHz400 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1900 MHz
Number of transistors160 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate5.40053.20
Floating-point processing powerno data1.702 TFLOPS
ROPs128
TMUs1228

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16IGP
Length211 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed350 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0b (9_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7 (6.4)
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2004 6 January 2020
Chip lithography 130 nm 7 nm

Graphics 448SP has an age advantage of 15 years, and a 1757.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between FireGL V5100 and Radeon Graphics 448SP. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that FireGL V5100 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon Graphics 448SP is a desktop one.


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ATI FireGL V5100
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