ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 VE

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Broadway NV36
GPU variant Broadway XT (216-0769008)
Architecture TeraScale 2 Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 1,040 million 82 million
Die size 166 mm² 133 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 7th, 2010
Generation Manhattan (Mobility HD 5800)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Reviews 2 in our database
Predecessor M9x
Successor Vancouver

Clocks

GPU clock 700 MHz 250 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective 200 MHz 400 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 128 MB
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 64.00 GB/s 6.400 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 800
TMUs 40 4
ROPs 16 4
Compute units 10
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 256 KB
Pixel shaders 4
Vertex shaders 3

Performance

Pixel rate 11.20 GPixel/s 1.000 GPixel/s
Texture rate 28.00 GTexel/s 1.000 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 1,120 GFLOPS
Vertex rate 187.5 MVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module Single-slot
TDP 50 W unknown
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Suggested PSU 200 W
Power connectors None

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 9.0a
OpenGL 4.4 1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL 1.2
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0
Pixel shader 2.0a
Vertex shader 2.0a

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 1st, 2004
Generation GeForce FX
Production End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x
Reviews 6 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 4 Ti
Successor GeForce 6 AGP

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