CMP 30HX vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5000

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated257
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data21.44
Power efficiencyno data11.76
ArchitectureR400 (2004−2008)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameM26TU116
Market segmentMobile workstationWorkstation
Release date3 February 2005 (19 years ago)25 February 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$799

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores141408
Core clock speed350 MHz1530 MHz
Boost clock speed350 MHz1785 MHz
Number of transistors120 million6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data125 Watt
Texture fill rate2.800157.1
Floating-point processing powerno data5.027 TFLOPS
ROPs848
TMUs888

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x4
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed425 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth13.6 GB/s336.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 ConnectorsNo outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0b (9_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 February 2005 25 February 2021
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 110 nm 12 nm

CMP 30HX has an age advantage of 16 years, a 4700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 816.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility FireGL V5000 and CMP 30HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility FireGL V5000 is a mobile workstation card while CMP 30HX is a workstation one.


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