ATI Radeon HD 5830 vs NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5830 and NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a 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 8100 + nForce 720a

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5830

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 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 80 nm
21.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1733 vs 79
Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 403 vs 308

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 February 2010 vs 17 April 2007
Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1733 vs 79
PassMark - G2D Mark	403 vs 308

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

4.4x lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 175 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt vs 175 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5830
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1733

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

403

308

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5830	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
PassMark - G3D Mark	1733	79
PassMark - G2D Mark	403	308
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5830	NVIDIA GeForce 8100 + nForce 720a
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Cypress	C78
Design	ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date	25 February 2010	17 April 2007
Place in performance rating	558	559
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	80 nm
Pipelines	1120
Texture fill rate	44.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt	40 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million	210 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
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