ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 vs Quadro FX 570M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1348not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.41no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)no data
GPU code nameG84M56GL
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date1 June 2007 (17 years ago)1 January 2007 (17 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 cores3217
Core clock speed475 MHz5 MHz
Boost clock speedno data400 MHz
Number of transistors289 million157 million
Manufacturing process technology80 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)45 Wattno data
Texture fill rate7.6005.400
Floating-point processing power0.0608 TFLOPSno data
ROPs812
TMUs1612

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 sizedmedium sized
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16

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 typeGDDR3DDR/DDR2/GDDR3/GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount512 MB256 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz330 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s11.2 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.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.03.0
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 June 2007 1 January 2007
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 256 MB
Chip lithography 80 nm 90 nm

FX 570M has an age advantage of 5 months, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 12.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 570M and Mobility FireGL V5250. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M
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