ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 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 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
- Around 40% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 500 MHz
- 2.3x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s
- 8.3x more pipelines: 800 vs 96
- 4.9x better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 230.4 gflops
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
- 2.7x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 134 Watt
- Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 768 MB
- 2.9x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz
- 2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1085 vs 426
- Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 219 vs 124
Specifications (specs) | |
Launch date | 7 January 2010 vs 5 March 2007 |
Core clock speed | 700 MHz vs 500 MHz |
Texture fill rate | 28 GTexel / s vs 12 GTexel / s |
Pipelines | 800 vs 96 |
Floating-point performance | 1,120.0 gflops vs 230.4 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 90 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 50 Watt vs 134 Watt |
Maximum memory size | 1 GB vs 768 MB |
Memory clock speed | 4000 MHz vs 1400 MHz |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 1085 vs 426 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 219 vs 124 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
- Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3230 vs 3077
- Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3230 vs 3077
Benchmarks | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3230 vs 3077 |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3230 vs 3077 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) |
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Name | ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 | NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 |
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PassMark - G3D Mark | 1085 | 426 |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 219 | 124 |
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 | 3230 |
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 2070 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 1679 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3077 | 3230 |
Compare specifications (specs)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 | NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | TeraScale 2 | Tesla |
Code name | Broadway | G80 |
Launch date | 7 January 2010 | 5 March 2007 |
Place in performance rating | 1217 | 1218 |
Type | Laptop | Workstation |
Launch price (MSRP) | $1,999 | |
Price now | $143.51 | |
Value for money (0-100) | 5.45 | |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 700 MHz | 500 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 1,120.0 gflops | 230.4 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 90 nm |
Pipelines | 800 | 96 |
Texture fill rate | 28 GTexel / s | 12 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 50 Watt | 134 Watt |
Transistor count | 1,040 million | 681 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Laptop size | large | |
Length | 229 mm | |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin | |
API support |
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DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | 10.0 |
OpenGL | 4.4 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 768 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 64.0 GB / s | 67.2 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 384 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 4000 MHz | 1400 MHz |
Memory type | DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 | GDDR3 |
Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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HDMI 1.3a |