ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G 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 8400M G

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 75% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 400 MHz
8.8x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
100x more pipelines: 800 vs 8
87.5x better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 12.8 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 256 MB
5x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 800 MHz
18.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1082 vs 59
5.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3077 vs 542
5.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3077 vs 542

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 9 May 2007
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 3.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	800 vs 8
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops vs 12.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1082 vs 59
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3077 vs 542
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3077 vs 542

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

5x lower typical power consumption: 10 Watt vs 50 Watt
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 241 vs 218

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	10 Watt vs 50 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	241 vs 218

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1082

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

218

241

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3077

542

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3077

542

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870	NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G
PassMark - G3D Mark	1082	59
PassMark - G2D Mark	218	241
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	542
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3077	542

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870	NVIDIA GeForce 8400M G
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Broadway	G86
Launch date	7 January 2010	9 May 2007
Place in performance rating	1211	1213
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops	12.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	800	8
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	10 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
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)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR3 / GDDR2
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0