ATI FirePro V4800 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1700

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
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameM66Redwood
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 February 2006 (18 years ago)26 April 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$189

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 cores17400
Core clock speed475 MHz775 MHz
Boost clock speed475 MHzno data
Number of transistors157 million627 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data69 Watt
Texture fill rate1.90015.50
Floating-point processing powerno data0.62 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs420

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 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount256 MB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidth12.8 GB/s57.6 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 outputs1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model3.05.0
OpenGL2.04.4
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 February 2006 26 April 2010
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 1 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 40 nm

ATI V4800 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 125% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon X1700 and FirePro V4800. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon X1700 is a notebook card while FirePro V4800 is a workstation one.


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