ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

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General info

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

Place in performance rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)no data
GPU code nameG98M56GL
Market segmentMobile workstationMobile workstation
Release date15 August 2008 (15 years old)1 January 2007 (17 years old)
Current price$105 no data

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 cores8no data
Core clock speed580 MHz5 MHz
Boost clock speedno data400 MHz
Number of transistors210 million157 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Wattno data
Texture fill rate4.6405.400
Floating-point performance23.2 gflopsno data

Size and compatibility

Information on Quadro NVS 160M and Mobility FireGL V5250 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 sizeno datamedium sized
InterfaceMXM-IPCIe 1.0 x16

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 typeGDDR2, GDDR3128
Maximum RAM amount256 MB256 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit330 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth11.2 GB/s11.2 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 outputsNo outputs

API support

List of supported graphics 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
CUDA1.1no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 15 August 2008 1 January 2007
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm

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