Tegra 2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5830

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking662not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency1.76no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)VLIW Vec4 (2010−2013)
GPU code nameCypressTegra 2
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date25 February 2010 (14 years ago)3 June 2010 (14 years ago)

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 cores1120no data
Core clock speed800 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data400 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate44.801.600
Floating-point processing power1.792 TFLOPSno data
ROPs164
TMUs564

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length282 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/sno data
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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)N/A
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.4ES 2.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 February 2010 3 June 2010
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 20 Watt

Tegra 2 has an age advantage of 3 months, and 775% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5830 and Tegra 2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5830 is a desktop card while Tegra 2 is a notebook one.


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