ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 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).

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 700 MHz vs 275 MHz
25.5x more texture fill rate: 28 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
8x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 500 MHz
25.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1085 vs 42
Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 219 vs 127

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	7 January 2010 vs 6 June 2006
Core clock speed	700 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1085 vs 42
PassMark - G2D Mark	219 vs 127

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285

2.8x lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 50 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1085

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

219

127

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 285
PassMark - G3D Mark	1085	42
PassMark - G2D Mark	219	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
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 Quadro NVS 285
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Broadway	NV44 A2
Launch date	7 January 2010	6 June 2006
Place in performance rating	1217	1219
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Launch price (MSRP)		$27.99
Price now		$61.99
Value for money (0-100)		0.72
Technical info
Core clock speed	700 MHz	275 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	800
Texture fill rate	28 GTexel / s	1.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	18 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DMS-59
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	DDR
Shared memory	0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a