ATI FirePro V4800 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking634not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.76no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameBroadway-XTRedwood
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date7 January 2010 (14 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 cores1600400
Core clock speed700 MHz775 MHz
Number of transistorsno data627 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt69 Watt
Texture fill rateno data15.50
Floating-point processing powerno data0.62 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data20

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 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 typeDDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz900 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data57.6 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 data1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort

API compatibility

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

DirectX1111.2 (11_0)
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno data4.4
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 26 April 2010
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 69 Watt

ATI V4800 has an age advantage of 3 months, and 73.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and FirePro V4800. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is a notebook card while FirePro V4800 is a workstation one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
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