NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M and ATI Radeon HD 5850 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 7 month(s) later
• Around 14% higher core clock speed: 823 MHz vs 725 MHz
• Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 797 MHz vs 725 MHz
• Around 95% higher texture fill rate: 102.0 GTexel / s vs 52.2 GTexel / s
• Around 7% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1440
• Around 17% better floating-point performance: 2,448 gflops vs 2,088.0 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 24% lower typical power consumption: 122 Watt vs 151 Watt
• 4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 93% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3797 vs 1970
• Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 422 vs 400
• 2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 39.934 vs 16.467
• 2.4x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.631 vs 1.541
• Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4868 vs 3806
• Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4868 vs 3806

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5850

• Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2500 MHz
• 2.6x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 33977 vs 12854
• Around 57% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1109.612 vs 705.616
• 3x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 42.08 vs 13.832
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3715 vs 3679
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3715 vs 3679

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5850

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3797 1970
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	422 400
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	12854 33977
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	39.934 16.467
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	705.616 1109.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.631 1.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	13.832 42.08
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4868 3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3679 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3351 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4868 3806
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3679 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3351 3358

Compare specifications (specs)