ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT 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 FX 5900 ZT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 325 MHz
21.5x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
5.7x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 700 MHz
32.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1084 vs 33
Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 219 vs 129

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 12 May 2003
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1084 vs 33
PassMark - G2D Mark	219 vs 129

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1084

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

219

129

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT
PassMark - G3D Mark	1084	33
PassMark - G2D Mark	219	129
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3077

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Rankine
Code name	Broadway	NV35
Launch date	7 January 2010	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	1217	1220
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	325 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	135 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)	AGP 8x
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0a
OpenGL	4.4	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a