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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870: specs and benchmarks
Price now
108$
Games supported
66%
- Interface MXM-B (3.0)
- Core clock speed 700
- Max video memory 1024 MB
- Memory type DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 1000
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2010
Performance
7.55
Summary
ATI started Mobility Radeon HD 5870 sales 7 January 2010. This is Terascale 2 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 1 GB of DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 64 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 50 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
7.55%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
General info
Of Mobility Radeon HD 5870's architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | 473 | |
| Value for money | 3.37 | |
| Architecture | Terascale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Broadway-XT | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 7 January 2010 (12 years ago) | |
| Price now | $108 | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Mobility Radeon HD 5870's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Mobility Radeon HD 5870's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 800 | of 18432 (AD102) |
| Core clock speed | 700 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 1,040 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 50 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Texture fill rate | 28.00 | of 939.8 (H100 SXM5) |
| Floating-point performance | 1,120.0 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Mobility Radeon HD 5870's 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 | |
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Mobility Radeon HD 5870: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 19500 (GeForce RTX 3090) |
| Memory bandwidth | 64 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
| Shared memory | - |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on Mobility Radeon HD 5870. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API support
APIs supported by Mobility Radeon HD 5870, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of Mobility Radeon HD 5870. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. 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.
- 3DMark Vantage Performance
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.
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| 900p | 31 | |
| Full HD | 39 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 8−9 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 8−9 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 8−9 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 8−9 | |
| Hitman 3 | 8−9 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 8−9 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 8−9 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 8−9 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 8−9 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 8−9 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 8−9 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 8−9 | |
| Hitman 3 | 8−9 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Metro Exodus | 8−9 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 8−9 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 8−9 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 8−9 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 8−9 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 8−9 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 8−9 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 8−9 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 8−9 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 8−9 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 8−9 |
1440p
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
| Hitman 3 | 8−9 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Metro Exodus | 8−9 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 8−9 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 8−9 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 8−9 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 8−9 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 8−9 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 8−9 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 8−9 |
4K
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
| Hitman 3 | 8−9 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Metro Exodus | 8−9 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 8−9 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 8−9 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 8−9 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 8−9 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 8−9 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 8−9 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 8−9 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 8−9 |
Relative perfomance
Overall Mobility Radeon HD 5870 performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
The nearest Mobility Radeon HD 5870's NVIDIA equivalent is GeForce 9800M GTX SLI, which is faster by 2% and higher by 5 positions in our rating.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Mobility Radeon HD 5870:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Mobility Radeon HD 5870 according to our statistics.
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