ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 GT

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 GT 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 40% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 4.7x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
  • 66.7x more pipelines: 800 vs 12
  • 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
  • 3.3x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • 5.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1092 vs 210
  • Around 78% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 223 vs 125
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 January 2010 vs 1 August 2006
Core clock speed 700 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate 28 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 800 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1092 vs 210
PassMark - G2D Mark 223 vs 125

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
1092
210
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
223
125
Name ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 1092 210
PassMark - G2D Mark 223 125
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 Go 7600 GT

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Curie
Code name Broadway G73
Launch date 7 January 2010 1 August 2006
Place in performance rating 1190 1244
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 700 MHz 500 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 800 12
Texture fill rate 28 GTexel / s 6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt
Transistor count 1,040 million 177 million
Boost clock speed 500 MHz

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 medium sized

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 19.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 600 Bit
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 128
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

HDMI 1.3a