AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 72% higher core clock speed: 775 MHz vs 450 MHz
17.8x more texture fill rate: 32 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
5.3x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 850 MHz
37.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1543 vs 41
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 351 vs 170

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	5 May 2015 vs 23 October 2003
Core clock speed	775 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	32 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 850 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1543 vs 41
PassMark - G2D Mark	351 vs 170

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1543

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

351

170

Name	AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	1543	41
PassMark - G2D Mark	351	170
Geekbench - OpenCL	9619
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	25.151
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	516.994
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.321
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	32.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	111.138
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1667
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3326
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1667
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3326

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Rankine
Code name	Tropo	NV35
Launch date	5 May 2015	23 October 2003
Place in performance rating	1017	1014
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Boost clock speed	800 MHz
Core clock speed	775 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,024 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	32 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,500 million	135 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		59 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length		218 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.5	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB / s	27.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	850 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR