ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 88% higher core clock speed: 750 MHz vs 400 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
5.4x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 81 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
2.9x more memory clock speed: 3200 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 236 vs 139
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 362 vs 153

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 26 July 2004
Core clock speed	750 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 81 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz vs 1100 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	236 vs 139
PassMark - G2D Mark	362 vs 153

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

Around 7% higher texture fill rate: 6.4 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	6.4 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

236

139

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

362

153

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark	236	139
PassMark - G2D Mark	362	153
Geekbench - OpenCL	2112
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	1247
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1247
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1679

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Park	NV40 A1
Launch date	7 January 2010	26 July 2004
Place in performance rating	1069	1070
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$499
Technical info
Core clock speed	750 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	80
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s	6.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	81 Watt
Transistor count	292 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		197 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 GB / s	35.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3200 MHz	1100 MHz
Memory type	DDR2, GDDR2, DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0