NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition and ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition

9.9x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 228 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 228 Watt

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Around 89% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 450 MHz

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 450 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 320M Mac Edition	ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	TeraScale 2
Code name	MCP89	Cypress
Launch date	1 April 2010	11 March 2010
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$479
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt	228 Watt
Transistor count	486 million	2,154 million
Floating-point performance		2,720.0 gflops
Pipelines		1600
Texture fill rate		68.0 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	6x mini-DisplayPort
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
API support
DirectX	10.1	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	3.3	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		2 GB
Memory bandwidth		153.6 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		4800 MHz
Memory type		GDDR5