ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5770 vs GeForce 9500 GT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1248not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.59no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameG96Madison
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date29 July 2008 (16 years ago)7 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$85.99 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores32400
Core clock speed550 MHz650 MHz
Number of transistors314 million627 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt30 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature105 °Cno data
Texture fill rate9.60013.00
Floating-point processing power0.096 TFLOPS0.52 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs1620

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizeno datalarge
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length175 mmno data
Height4.376" (11.1 cm)no data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB1 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)51.2 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsDual Link DVISingle Link DVINo outputs
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIS/PDIFno data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model4.05.0
OpenGL2.14.4
OpenCL1.11.2
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 July 2008 7 January 2010
Chip lithography 65 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 30 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5770 has an age advantage of 1 year, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 66.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9500 GT and Mobility Radeon HD 5770. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9500 GT is a desktop card while Mobility Radeon HD 5770 is a notebook one.


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