ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5850 and NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400 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), 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 5850

NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5850

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 71% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 425 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
78.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1966 vs 25
Around 70% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 411 vs 242

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	30 September 2009 vs 11 October 2004
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1966 vs 25
PassMark - G2D Mark	411 vs 242

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5850
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1966

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

411

242

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5850	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400
PassMark - G3D Mark	1966	25
PassMark - G2D Mark	411	242
Geekbench - OpenCL	33977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	16.467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1109.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	42.08
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5850	NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 400
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Curie
Code name	Cypress	C61
Design	ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date	30 September 2009	11 October 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$299
Place in performance rating	751	754
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	725 MHz
Core clock speed	725 MHz	425 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,088.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1440
Texture fill rate	52.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	151 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 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	241 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