ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Broadway NV35
GPU variant Broadway XT (216-0769008) FX 5900
Architecture TeraScale 2 Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 1,040 million 135 million
Die size 166 mm² 207 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 400 MHz
Memory clock 1000 MHz 4 Gbps effective 425 MHz 850 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 128 MB
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 64.00 GB/s 27.20 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 800
TMUs 40 8
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 1.600 GPixel/s
Texture rate 28.00 GTexel/s 3.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 1,120 GFLOPS
Vertex rate 300.0 MVertices/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module Single-slot
TDP 50 W unknown
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Length 218 mm 8.6 inches
Suggested PSU 200 W
Power connectors 1x Molex

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 May 12th, 2003
Generation GeForce FX
Production End-of-life
Launch price 399 USD
Interface AGP 8x
Reviews 11 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 4 Ti
Successor GeForce 6 AGP

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