ATI Mobility FireGL 9000 vs GeForce 800A

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1041not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.72no data
ArchitectureFermi 2.0 (2010−2014)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameGF119M9
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date17 March 2014 (10 years ago)2002 (22 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 cores485
Core clock speed475 MHz250 MHz
Boost clock speedno data250 MHz
Number of transistors292 million36 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.8001.000
Floating-point processing power0.0912 TFLOPSno data
ROPs44
TMUs84

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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16AGP 4x

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 typeDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB64 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz200 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s6.4 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_0)8.1
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.61.4
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA2.1-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm

GeForce 800A has a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 800A and Mobility FireGL 9000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 800A is a notebook graphics card while Mobility FireGL 9000 is a mobile workstation one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 800A
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