ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies, Video outputs and ports. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

  • 22.2x more pipelines: 1600 vs 72
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2x1 GB vs 1 GB
Pipelines 1600 vs 72
Maximum memory size 2x1 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M

  • Around 54% higher core clock speed: 1080 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • 4.3x lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 120 Watt
Core clock speed 1080 MHz vs 700 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 28 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M

Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M
PassMark - G3D Mark 382
PassMark - G2D Mark 32
Geekbench - OpenCL 7386
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2120
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2120

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M

Essentials

Architecture Terascale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Broadway-XT GT215
Launch date 7 January 2010 7 January 2010
Place in performance rating not rated 1566
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 1080 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 1600 72
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 120 Watt 28 Watt
CUDA cores 72
Floating-point performance 155.52 gflops
Gigaflops 233
Texture fill rate 10.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count 727 million

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Laptop size large medium sized
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16

API support

DirectX 11 10.1
OpenGL 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2x1 GB 1 GB
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s

Technologies

HDMI 1.3a
CUDA
HybridPower
MXM 3.0 Type-B
Power management 8.0
PowerMizer 8.0
SLI

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors Single Link DVIVGADisplayPortHDMIDual Link DVI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support