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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire: specs and benchmarks

Summary

ATI started Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire sales 7 January 2010. This is Terascale 2 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 2x1 GB MB of DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 120 Watt.

It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 11.68 percent of a leader's which is AMD Radeon R9 390 X2.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Technologies Benchmarks Gaming NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

306

Architecture

Terascale 2

Code name

Broadway-XT

Type

Laptop

Release date

7 January 2010

Technical specs

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

1600

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

700 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

of 12

Power consumption (TDP)

120 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire'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

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire: 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

2x1 GB MB

of 32

Memory bus width

128 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

1000 MHz

of 11408 (TITAN Xp)

Shared memory

Technologies

Technological solutions and APIs supported by Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

HDMI 1.3a

API support

APIs supported by Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

11.46

3DMark Vantage Performance

13046.00

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

Let's see how good Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

n/d

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

StarCraft 2 (2010)

low / 768p

158.80

medium / 768p

57.90

high / 768p

57.90

ultra / 1080p

51.20

Crysis - CPU Benchmark (2007)

low / 768p

123.80

medium / 768p

60.50

high / 768p

49.60

ultra / 1080p

28.90

Crysis - GPU Benchmark (2007)

low / 768p

99.50

medium / 768p

60.70

high / 768p

51.30

ultra / 1080p

29.70

Relative perfomance

Overall Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

100 %

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire from NVIDIA is GeForce 945M, which is faster by 3% and higher by 6 positions in our rating.