NVIDIA GeForce 830A vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 830A and ATI Radeon HD 5870 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 830A

• Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
• Around 27% higher core clock speed: 1082 MHz vs 850 MHz
• Around 35% higher boost clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 850 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 5.7x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 188 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
• 2.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 4315 vs 1850

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870

• 3.7x more texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 18.4 GTexel / s
• 6.3x more pipelines: 1600 vs 256
• 4.6x better floating-point performance: 2,720.0 gflops vs 588.8 gflops
• 2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz
• Around 87% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2216 vs 1188
• Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 412 vs 407
• 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4541 vs 1767
• 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4541 vs 1767
• Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3671 vs 2889
• Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3671 vs 2889
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3349 vs 3302
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3349 vs 3302

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 830A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5870

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1188 2216
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	407 412
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	4315 1850
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1767 4541
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1767 4541
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2889 3671
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2889 3671
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3302 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3302 3349

Compare specifications (specs)