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).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

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: 1076 vs 431
Around 71% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 217 vs 127

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	1076 vs 431
PassMark - G2D Mark	217 vs 127

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1076

431

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

217

127

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3077

3230

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3077

3230

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600
PassMark - G3D Mark	1076	431
PassMark - G2D Mark	217	127
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
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Broadway	G80
Launch date	7 January 2010	5 March 2007
Place in performance rating	1211	1214
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$1,999
Price now		$143.51
Value for money (0-100)		5.45
Technical info
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
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
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
HDMI 1.3a