ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830

  • 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 24 Watt vs 50 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 24 Watt vs 50 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

  • Around 40% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 40% higher texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 20 GTexel / s
  • Around 40% better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
  • 2.5x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
Core clock speed 700 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 28 GTexel / s vs 20 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops vs 800.0 gflops
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
PassMark - G3D Mark 1085
PassMark - G2D Mark 219
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 8.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 585.971
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.86
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 20.108
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 98.606
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3077
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3077

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 TeraScale 2
Code name Broadway Broadway
Launch date 7 January 2010 7 January 2010
Place in performance rating not rated 1216
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 700 MHz
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 800 800
Texture fill rate 20 GTexel / s 28 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 24 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,040 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size large large

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3 DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

HDMI 1.3a