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).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M

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	1565
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