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).

 

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
42
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 1216 1218
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