NVIDIA Quadro 6000 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Quadro 6000 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, 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 Quadro 6000

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• 6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2691 vs 2213
• Around 9% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 449 vs 413
• 5.3x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 9850 vs 1857
• Around 30% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 24.377 vs 18.789
• Around 50% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 2.66 vs 1.775

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 5870

• Around 48% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 574 MHz
• 2.1x more texture fill rate: 68.0 GTexel / s vs 32.1 GTexel / s
• 3.6x more pipelines: 1600 vs 448
• 2.6x better floating-point performance: 2,720.0 gflops vs 1,027.7 gflops
• Around 9% lower typical power consumption: 188 Watt vs 204 Watt
• Around 61% higher memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 2988 MHz
• Around 69% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1339.688 vs 793.755
• Around 25% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 43.496 vs 34.891
• 2.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 245.813 vs 90.839
• Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4541 vs 3501
• Around 30% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4541 vs 3501

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Quadro 6000
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 5870

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2691 2213
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	449 413
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	9850 1857
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	24.377 18.789
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	793.755 1339.688
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.66 1.775
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	34.891 43.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	90.839 245.813
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3501 4541
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3689 3671
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3335 3349
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3501 4541
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3689 3671
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3335 3349

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