ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 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), Geekbench - OpenCL.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
  • 3.3x more pipelines: 800 vs 240
  • Around 66% better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 673.9 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 4.4x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 219 Watt
  • Around 14% higher maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 896 MB
  • 3.5x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1134 MHz
  • 3.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 219 vs 67
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 January 2010 vs 15 January 2009
Pipelines 800 vs 240
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops vs 673.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 219 Watt
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 896 MB
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1134 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 219 vs 67

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

  • 2x more core clock speed: 1404 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • Around 81% higher texture fill rate: 50.6 billion / sec vs 28 GTexel / s
  • Around 28% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1385 vs 1084
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3195 vs 3077
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3195 vs 3077
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1404 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 50.6 billion / sec vs 28 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1385 vs 1084
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3195 vs 3077
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3195 vs 3077

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1084
1385
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
219
67
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3077
3195
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3077
3195
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
PassMark - G3D Mark 1084 1385
PassMark - G2D Mark 219 67
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 3195
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3077 3195
Geekbench - OpenCL 23256

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Broadway GT200B
Launch date 7 January 2010 15 January 2009
Place in performance rating 1217 1232
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $249
Price now $119.99
Value for money (0-100) 13.43

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 1404 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 673.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 800 240
Texture fill rate 28 GTexel / s 50.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 219 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 1,400 million
CUDA cores 240
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs Two Dual Link DVI, 2x DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
Bus support PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length 10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options 2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.4 3.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 896 MB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s 127.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 448 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 1134 MHz
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

HDMI 1.3a
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI