NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M and ATI Radeon HD 5830 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

ATI Radeon HD 5830

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 37% higher core clock speed: 1096 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 47% higher boost clock speed: 1176 MHz vs 800 MHz
Around 5% higher texture fill rate: 47.04 GTexel / s vs 44.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 175 Watt
4x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 1 GB
Around 96% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3400 vs 1734

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	13 March 2015 vs 25 February 2010
Core clock speed	1096 MHz vs 800 MHz
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz vs 800 MHz
Texture fill rate	47.04 GTexel / s vs 44.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt vs 175 Watt
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3400 vs 1734

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5830

Around 75% higher pipelines: 1120 vs 640
Around 19% better floating-point performance: 1,792.0 gflops vs 1,505 gflops
Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2500 MHz
Around 62% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 399 vs 247

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1120 vs 640
Floating-point performance	1,792.0 gflops vs 1,505 gflops
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 2500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	399 vs 247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5830

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3400

1734

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

399

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M	ATI Radeon HD 5830
PassMark - G3D Mark	3400	1734
PassMark - G2D Mark	247	399
Geekbench - OpenCL	10716
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	54.294
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	795.325
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.692
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	51.794
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	174.513
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5264
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1230	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M	ATI Radeon HD 5830
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	TeraScale 2
Code name	GM107	Cypress
Launch date	13 March 2015	25 February 2010
Place in performance rating	770	537
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Design		ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1176 MHz	800 MHz
Core clock speed	1096 MHz	800 MHz
CUDA cores	640
Floating-point performance	1,505 gflops	1,792.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	640	1120
Texture fill rate	47.04 GTexel / s	44.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	175 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	2,154 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support	1
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support	1
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Length		282 mm
Supplementary power connectors		2x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	11
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	80 GB / s	128.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2500 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
Adaptive VSync
Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
AMD Eyefinity