ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 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) 1 month(s) later
- Around 15% higher core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 610 MHz
- 3.3x more pipelines: 800 vs 240
- Around 80% better floating-point performance: 1,120.0 gflops vs 622.1 gflops
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
- 3.8x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 189 Watt
- 2.5x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1600 MHz
- 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 224 vs 96
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 7 January 2010 vs 11 November 2008 |
| Core clock speed | 700 MHz vs 610 MHz |
| Pipelines | 800 vs 240 |
| Floating-point performance | 1,120.0 gflops vs 622.1 gflops |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm vs 55 nm |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 50 Watt vs 189 Watt |
| Memory clock speed | 4000 MHz vs 1600 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 224 vs 96 |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
- Around 74% higher texture fill rate: 48.8 GTexel / s vs 28 GTexel / s
- 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
- Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1222 vs 1092
- Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3319 vs 3077
- Around 8% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3319 vs 3077
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Texture fill rate | 48.8 GTexel / s vs 28 GTexel / s |
| Maximum memory size | 4 GB vs 1 GB |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 1222 vs 1092 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3319 vs 3077 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3319 vs 3077 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800
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| Name | ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 | NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 1092 | 1222 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 224 | 96 |
| 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 | 3319 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 2070 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 1679 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3077 | 3319 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 18229 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 | NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 | |
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Essentials |
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| Architecture | TeraScale 2 | Tesla 2.0 |
| Code name | Broadway | GT200B |
| Launch date | 7 January 2010 | 11 November 2008 |
| Place in performance rating | 1200 | 1202 |
| Type | Laptop | Workstation |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $3,499 | |
| Price now | $178.89 | |
| Value for money (0-100) | 8.02 | |
Technical info |
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| Core clock speed | 700 MHz | 610 MHz |
| Floating-point performance | 1,120.0 gflops | 622.1 gflops |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | 55 nm |
| Pipelines | 800 | 240 |
| Texture fill rate | 28 GTexel / s | 48.8 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 50 Watt | 189 Watt |
| Transistor count | 1,040 million | 1,400 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | 2x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Laptop size | large | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 | 4 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 64.0 GB / s | 102.4 GB / s |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 512 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 4000 MHz | 1600 MHz |
| Memory type | DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 | GDDR3 |
| Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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