ATI Mobility FireGL T2e vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M SLI

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General info

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

Place in performance ranking529not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money4.25no data
ArchitectureFermi (2010−2014)Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code nameN11E-GTM11GL
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date1 November 2010 (13 years old)1 August 2004 (19 years old)
Current price$149 no data
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores576no data
Core clock speed535 MHz2 MHz
Boost clock speedno data450 MHz
Number of transistorsno data76 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm130 nm
Texture fill rateno data1.800

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 470M SLI and Mobility FireGL T2e compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargemedium sized
Interfaceno dataAGP 4x

Memory

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 typeGDDR5128
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus width192 Bit260 Bit
Memory clock speed1250 MHz450 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data7.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Video outputs and ports

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 dataNo outputs

API support

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

DirectX119.0
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkanno dataN/A

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 1 November 2010 1 August 2004
Chip lithography 40 nm 130 nm

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 470M SLI and Mobility FireGL T2e. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 470M SLI is a notebook graphics card while Mobility FireGL T2e is a mobile workstation one.


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