ATI Radeon HD 5830 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 610i

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5830 and NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 610i 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, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

ATI Radeon HD 5830

NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 610i

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5830

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 60% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 500 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
69.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1734 vs 25
3.9x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 399 vs 102

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 February 2010 vs 13 January 2008
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1734 vs 25
PassMark - G2D Mark	399 vs 102

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5830
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 610i

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1734

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

399

102

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5830	NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 610i
PassMark - G3D Mark	1734	25
PassMark - G2D Mark	399	102
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5830	NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 610i
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Cypress	C73
Design	ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date	25 February 2010	13 January 2008
Place in performance rating	537	1353
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	800 MHz
Core clock speed	800 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,792.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1120
Texture fill rate	44.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million	112 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCI
Length	282 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity