ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 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 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 3.3x more pipelines: 800 vs 240
  • Around 58% better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 708.5 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
  • 4.1x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 204 Watt
  • 3.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1242 MHz
  • 3.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 224 vs 69
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 January 2010 vs 23 December 2008
Pipelines 800 vs 240
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops vs 708.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 204 Watt
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1242 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 224 vs 69

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 1476 MHz vs 700 MHz
  • Around 85% higher texture fill rate: 51.8 billion / sec vs 28 GTexel / s
  • Around 38% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1502 vs 1092
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3347 vs 3077
  • Around 9% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3347 vs 3077
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1476 MHz vs 700 MHz
Texture fill rate 51.8 billion / sec vs 28 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1502 vs 1092
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3347 vs 3077
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3347 vs 3077

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1092
1502
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
224
69
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3077
3347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3077
3347
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
PassMark - G3D Mark 1092 1502
PassMark - G2D Mark 224 69
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 3347
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2070
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3077 3347
Geekbench - OpenCL 22124

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla 2.0
Code name Broadway GT200B
Launch date 7 January 2010 23 December 2008
Place in performance rating 1200 1201
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $359
Price now $179.99
Value for money (0-100) 9.17

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 1476 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops 708.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 800 240
Texture fill rate 28 GTexel / s 51.8 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 204 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 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large
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 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 64.0 GB / s 159.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 512 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 1242 MHz
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

HDMI 1.3a
3D Vision
CUDA
High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR) 128bit
SLI