ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700 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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 89% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 89% higher boost clock speed: 850 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • 12.6x more texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
  • 133.3x more pipelines: 1600 vs 12
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 512 MB
  • 4.8x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • 14.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2199 vs 148
  • Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 416 vs 232
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 September 2009 vs 1 August 2006
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 450 MHz
Boost clock speed 850 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 68.0 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1600 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2199 vs 148
PassMark - G2D Mark 416 vs 232

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon HD 5870
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2199
148
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
416
232
Name ATI Radeon HD 5870 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
PassMark - G3D Mark 2199 148
PassMark - G2D Mark 416 232
Geekbench - OpenCL 1858
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 18.789
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1339.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.775
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 43.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 245.813
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4541
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3671
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4541
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3671
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3349
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Curie
Code name Cypress G73
Design ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Launch date 23 September 2009 1 August 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $399
Place in performance rating 770 773
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 850 MHz 450 MHz
Core clock speed 850 MHz 450 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,720.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1600 12
Texture fill rate 68.0 GTexel / s 5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 188 Watt
Transistor count 2,154 million 177 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 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 282 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 11 9.0c
OpenGL 4.4 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB / s 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 500 Bit
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 128
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity