ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 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), 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).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 43% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 350 MHz
3.6x more texture fill rate: 20 GTexel / s vs 5.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
2.2x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 67 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
5.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 700 MHz
5.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 763 vs 142
Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 403 vs 212

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 14 April 2004
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	20 GTexel / s vs 5.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt vs 67 Watt
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	763 vs 142
PassMark - G2D Mark	403 vs 212

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

763

142

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

403

212

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark	763	142
PassMark - G2D Mark	403	212
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	7.457
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	512.081
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1643
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3314
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850	NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Broadway	NV40 A1
Launch date	7 January 2010	14 April 2004
Place in performance rating	848	849
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	20 GTexel / s	5.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	30 Watt	67 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	222 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a