ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M 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 GTS 360M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

16.7x more pipelines: 1600 vs 96
2x more maximum memory size: 2x1 GB vs 1 GB

Pipelines	1600 vs 96
Maximum memory size	2x1 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

2.1x more core clock speed: 1436 MHz vs 700 MHz
3.2x lower typical power consumption: 38 Watt vs 120 Watt

Core clock speed	1436 MHz vs 700 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	38 Watt vs 120 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M
PassMark - G3D Mark		654
PassMark - G2D Mark		58
Geekbench - OpenCL		11217
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3329
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3329

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 360M
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	1375
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	1436 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1600	96
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	120 Watt	38 Watt
CUDA cores		96
Floating-point performance		275.71 gflops
Gigaflops		413
Texture fill rate		17.6 GTexel / s
Transistor count		727 million
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Laptop size	large	large
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Interface		MXM-II
MXM Type		MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options		2-way
Supplementary power connectors		None
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, GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Memory bandwidth		57.6 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 DVILVDSHDMIDual Link DVIDisplayPortVGA
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536