ATI Radeon HD 5770 vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5770 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

ATI Radeon HD 5770

NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5770

Videocard is newer: launch date 11 month(s) later
Around 41% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 602 MHz
4.2x more pipelines: 800 vs 192
2.9x better floating-point performance: 1,360.0 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
Around 39% lower typical power consumption: 108 Watt vs 150 Watt
3x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Launch date	13 October 2009 vs 11 November 2008
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 602 MHz
Pipelines	800 vs 192
Floating-point performance	1,360.0 gflops vs 462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 55 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	108 Watt vs 150 Watt
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1600 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 38.5 GTexel / s vs 34.0 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 1536 MB vs 1 GB

Texture fill rate	38.5 GTexel / s vs 34.0 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	1536 MB vs 1 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5770
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5770	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	1345
PassMark - G2D Mark	335
Geekbench - OpenCL	10495
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	9.373
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	459.025
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	0.906
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	27.022
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	48.793
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2636
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2673
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2799
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2636
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2673
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2799
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5770	NVIDIA Quadro FX 4800 Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Juniper	GT200B
Design	ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date	13 October 2009	11 November 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$159	$1,799
Place in performance rating	1094	not rated
Type	Desktop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	850 MHz
Core clock speed	850 MHz	602 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,360.0 gflops	462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	800	192
Texture fill rate	34.0 GTexel / s	38.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	108 Watt	150 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	1,400 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	208 mm	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1536 MB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	76.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity