ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE 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).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 56% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 450 MHz
20x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
6x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 666 MHz
27.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1085 vs 39
27.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3077 vs 112
27.5x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3077 vs 112

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 22 March 2006
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 666 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1085 vs 39
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3077 vs 112
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3077 vs 112

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE

Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 251 vs 219

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	251 vs 219

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1085

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

219

251

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3077

112

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3077

112

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870	NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark	1085	39
PassMark - G2D Mark	219	251
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	112
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3077	112

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870	NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Broadway	G72
Launch date	7 January 2010	22 March 2006
Place in performance rating	1216	1219
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s	1.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		None
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	5.33 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	666 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a