Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs GeForce GTX 675MX

Place in performance ranking	511	739
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.84	1.05
Architecture	Kepler (2012−2018)	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	N13E-GSR	Broadway-XT
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	1 October 2012 (11 years ago)	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Current price	$868	$108

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

ATI Mobility HD 5870 has 25% better value for money than GTX 675MX.

Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	960	800
CUDA cores	960	no data
Core clock speed	600 MHz	700 MHz
Number of transistors	3,540 million	1,040 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	50 Watt
Texture fill rate	48.0 billion/sec	28.00
Floating-point performance	1,256 gflops	1,120.0 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 675MX and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	large
Bus support	PCI Express 2.0	no data
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data
SLI options	+	no data

Memory

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 type	GDDR5	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	115.2 GB/s	64 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Video outputs and ports

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 Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
HDMI	+	no data
HDCP	+	no data
Maximum VGA resolution	Up to 2048x1536	no data

Technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus

no data

API support

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

DirectX	12 API	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	5.1	5.0
OpenGL	4.5	4.4
OpenCL	1.1	1.2
Vulkan	1.1.126	N/A
CUDA	+	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

GTX 675MX 7.08
+140%

ATI Mobility HD 5870 2.95

GeForce GTX 675MX outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 5870 by 140% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

GTX 675MX 18950
+137%

ATI Mobility HD 5870 7999

GeForce GTX 675MX outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 5870 by 137% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

900p	70−75 +126%	31 −126%
Full HD	50 +28.2%	39 −28.2%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

10−12
+83.3%

6−7

−83.3%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	14−16 +250%	4−5 −250%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	9−10 +200%	3−4 −200%
Battlefield 5	21−24 +283%	6−7 −283%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	20−22 +66.7%	12−14 −66.7%
Cyberpunk 2077	10−12 +83.3%	6−7 −83.3%
Far Cry 5	16−18 +325%	4−5 −325%
Far Cry New Dawn	18−20 +350%	4−5 −350%
Forza Horizon 4	24−27 +200%	8−9 −200%
Hitman 3	16−18 +183%	6−7 −183%
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16 +180%	5−6 −180%
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14 +117%	6−7 −117%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	16−18 +77.8%	9−10 −77.8%
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−12 +450%	2−3 −450%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	14−16 +250%	4−5 −250%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	9−10 +200%	3−4 −200%
Battlefield 5	21−24 +283%	6−7 −283%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	20−22 +66.7%	12−14 −66.7%
Cyberpunk 2077	10−12 +83.3%	6−7 −83.3%
Far Cry 5	16−18 +325%	4−5 −325%
Far Cry New Dawn	18−20 +350%	4−5 −350%
Forza Horizon 4	24−27 +200%	8−9 −200%
Hitman 3	16−18 +183%	6−7 −183%
Horizon Zero Dawn	14−16 +180%	5−6 −180%
Metro Exodus	10−11 +150%	4−5 −150%
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14 +117%	6−7 −117%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	16−18 +77.8%	9−10 −77.8%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 +114%	7−8 −114%
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−12 +450%	2−3 −450%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	14−16 +250%	4−5 −250%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	9−10 +200%	3−4 −200%
Battlefield 5	21−24 +283%	6−7 −283%
Cyberpunk 2077	10−12 +83.3%	6−7 −83.3%
Far Cry 5	16−18 +325%	4−5 −325%
Far Cry New Dawn	18−20 +350%	4−5 −350%
Forza Horizon 4	24−27 +200%	8−9 −200%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 +114%	7−8 −114%
Watch Dogs: Legion	10−12 +450%	2−3 −450%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12 +120%	5−6 −120%
Hitman 3	10−12 +83.3%	6−7 −83.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14 +30%	10−11 −30%
Metro Exodus	5−6 +400%	1−2 −400%
Red Dead Redemption 2	5−6 +400%	1−2 −400%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	10−11 +66.7%	6−7 −66.7%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7	0−1
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3	0−1
Battlefield 5	7−8 +250%	2−3 −250%
Cyberpunk 2077	3−4 +50%	2−3 −50%
Far Cry 5	10−12 +120%	5−6 −120%
Far Cry New Dawn	9−10 +200%	3−4 −200%
Forza Horizon 4	10−12 +1000%	1−2 −1000%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	6−7 +100%	3−4 −100%
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3	0−1

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 +150%	2−3 −150%
Hitman 3	7−8 +133%	3−4 −133%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 +14.3%	7−8 −14.3%
Metro Exodus	1−2	0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
Battlefield 5	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2	0−1
Far Cry 5	6−7 +50%	4−5 −50%
Far Cry New Dawn	9−10 +50%	6−7 −50%
Forza Horizon 4	7−8 +250%	2−3 −250%
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2	0−1

This is how GTX 675MX and ATI Mobility HD 5870 compete in popular games:

GTX 675MX is 126% faster than ATI Mobility HD 5870 in 900p
GTX 675MX is 28.2% faster than ATI Mobility HD 5870 in 1080p

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

in Forza Horizon 4, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the GTX 675MX is 1000% faster than the ATI Mobility HD 5870.

All in all, in popular games:

Without exception, GTX 675MX surpassed ATI Mobility HD 5870 in all 53 of our tests.

Advantages and disadvantages

Performance score	7.08	2.95
Recency	1 October 2012	7 January 2010
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	50 Watt