ATI Mobility FireGL V5200 vs Quadro M2000

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	440	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	3.44	no data
Power efficiency	9.59	no data
Architecture	Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)	R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name	GM206	M56
Market segment	Workstation	Mobile workstation
Release date	8 April 2016 (8 years ago)	1 February 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$437.75	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	768	17
Core clock speed	796 MHz	425 MHz
Boost clock speed	1163 MHz	425 MHz
Number of transistors	2,940 million	157 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	55.82	5.100
Floating-point processing power	1.786 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	12
TMUs	48	12

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 size	no data	medium sized
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	201 mm	no data
Width	1" (2.5 cm)	no data
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

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 type	128 Bit	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1653 MHz	475 MHz
Memory bandwidth	Up to 106 GB/s	15.2 GB/s
Shared memory	no 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 Connectors	4x DisplayPort	No outputs
Number of simultaneous displays	4	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

3D Vision Pro	+	no data
Mosaic	+	no data
nView Desktop Management	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12	9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model	6.4	3.0
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	5.2	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	8 April 2016	1 February 2006
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	90 nm

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