ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 57% higher texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 43.2 billion / sec
12.5x more pipelines: 1600 vs 128
6.3x better floating-point performance: 2,720.0 gflops vs 432.1 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 65 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
4.3x more memory clock speed: 4780 MHz vs 1100 MHz

Launch date	30 June 2010 vs 28 March 2008
Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s vs 43.2 billion / sec
Pipelines	1600 vs 128
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops vs 432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size	1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4780 MHz vs 1100 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Around 99% higher core clock speed: 1688 MHz vs 850 MHz
Around 63% lower typical power consumption: 140 Watt vs 228 Watt

Core clock speed	1688 MHz vs 850 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt vs 228 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Name	ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
PassMark - G2D Mark		366
PassMark - G3D Mark		769

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	Tesla
Code name	Cypress	G92
Launch date	30 June 2010	28 March 2008
Launch price (MSRP)	$479	$299
Place in performance rating	not rated	438
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	1688 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops	432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	1600	128
Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s	43.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	228 Watt	140 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million	754 million
CUDA cores		128
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI
Audio input for HDMI		S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	279 mm	10.5" (26.7 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	2x 6-pin
Bus support		PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376" (11.1 cm)
SLI options		2-way3-way
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	153.0 GB / s	70.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4780 MHz	1100 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI