ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M 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, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Around 70% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 500 MHz
8.5x more texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
66.7x more pipelines: 1600 vs 24
34x better floating-point performance: 2,720.0 gflops vs 80 gflops
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
3x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1580 MHz

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1600 vs 24
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops vs 80 gflops
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1580 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

16.3x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 228 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	14 Watt vs 228 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6	NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M
PassMark - G3D Mark		106
PassMark - G2D Mark		35
Geekbench - OpenCL		3307
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1458
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1458
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1774
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1774

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6	NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Cypress	GT216
Launch date	11 March 2010	3 March 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$479
Place in performance rating	not rated	1509
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops	80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1600	24
Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	228 Watt	14 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million	486 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	279 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.1
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB / s	25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	1580 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR3
Shared memory		0
Technologies
HybridPower
PCI-E 2.0