Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 4.86% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
ATI started Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire sales 7 January 2010. This is a Terascale 2 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2x1 GB of DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied.
Power consumption is at 120 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 599 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Terascale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Broadway-XT | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 7 January 2010 (14 years ago) | |
| Current price | $56 | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Technical specs
Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base 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 / CUDA cores | 1600 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 700 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 120 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
Size and compatibility
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
Parameters of memory installed on Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2x1 GB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Shared memory | - |
API support
APIs supported by Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire. 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.
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%
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Gaming performance
Let's see how good Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire 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.
Average FPS across all PC games
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| 900p | 53 | |
| Full HD | 54 |
FPS performance in popular games
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 9−10 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 4−5 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 14−16 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 16−18 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 14−16 | |
| Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 9−10 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 9−10 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12−14 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 6−7 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 9−10 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 4−5 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 14−16 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 16−18 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 14−16 | |
| Hitman 3 | 10−12 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 9−10 | |
| Metro Exodus | 7−8 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 9−10 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 12−14 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−11 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 6−7 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 9−10 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 4−5 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 14−16 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 8−9 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 10−11 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 10−12 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 14−16 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 10−11 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 6−7 |
1440p
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 8−9 | |
| Hitman 3 | 8−9 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 10−12 | |
| Metro Exodus | 3−4 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 3−4 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 8−9 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 3−4 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 2−3 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 7−8 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 4−5 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 6−7 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 4−5 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 0−1 |
4K
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 3−4 | |
| Hitman 3 | 5−6 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 8−9 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 2−3 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 1−2 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 1−2 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 2−3 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 2−3 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 0−1 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 5−6 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 7−8 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 3−4 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 0−1 |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is GeForce GTX 570M, which is slower by 1% and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire:
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Recommended processors
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