ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

What is the difference between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

BroadwayGPU NameGF116
Broadway XT
(216-0769008)
Model numberGF116-400-A1
TeraScale 2ArchitectureFermi 2.0
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size40 nm
1,040 millionTransistors1,170 million
166 mm²Die Size238 mm²

Graphics Card

Jan 7th, 2010Release DateMar 15th, 2011
Manhattan
(Mobility HD 5800)
FamilyGeForce 500
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
M9xPredecessorGeForce 400
MXM-B (3.0)Bus InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size1024 MB
GDDR5Memory TypeGDDR5
128 bitMemory Bus192 bit
64.00 GB/sBandwidth98.50 GB/s

Performance

11.20 GPixel/sPixel fillrate7.200 GPixel/s
28.00 GTexel/sTexture fillrate28.80 GTexel/s
1,120 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance691.2 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
Memory Clock1026 MHz
4.1 Gbps effective
700 MHzGPU Clock900 MHz

Render Config

800Shading Units192
40TMUs32
16ROPs24
8 KB (per CU)L1 Cache64 KB (per SM)
256 KBL2 Cache384 KB

Board Design

MXM ModuleSlot WidthDual-slot
50 WThermal design power (TDP)116 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI

API support

11.2 (11_0)DirectX12 (11_0)
4.4OpenGL4.6
1.2OpenCL1.1
N/AVulkanN/A
5.0Shader Model5.1