ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA Tegra 2

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition and NVIDIA Tegra 2 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA Tegra 2

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition

2.8x more core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 300 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tegra 2

11.4x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 228 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 228 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition	NVIDIA Tegra 2
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	GeForce ULP
Code name	Cypress	Tegra 2
Launch date	30 June 2010	3 June 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$479
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1600
Texture fill rate	68.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	228 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	2,154 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 2x mini-DisplayPort	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	IGP
Length	279 mm
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	N / A
OpenGL	4.4	ES 2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	153.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4780 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5