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 of DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 120 Watt.

General info

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

Place in performance rating	347
Value for money	1.60
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Broadway-XT
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	7 January 2010 (12 years ago)
Price now	$56	of 49999 (A100 SXM4)

Technical specs

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire'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 Crossfire's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1600	of 18432 (AD102)
Core clock speed	700 MHz	of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 4 (H100 PCIe)
Thermal design power (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

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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 don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2x1 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)
Shared memory	-

API support

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

DirectX

11

Benchmark performance

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

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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.

Game benchmarks

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.

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

900p	53
Full HD	54

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	12−14
Battlefield 5	12−14
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	12−14
Far Cry 5	12−14
Far Cry New Dawn	12−14
Forza Horizon 4	12−14
Hitman 3	12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14
Watch Dogs: Legion	12−14

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	12−14
Battlefield 5	12−14
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	12−14
Far Cry 5	12−14
Far Cry New Dawn	12−14
Forza Horizon 4	12−14
Hitman 3	12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14
Metro Exodus	12−14
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14
Watch Dogs: Legion	12−14

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	12−14
Battlefield 5	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	12−14
Far Cry 5	12−14
Far Cry New Dawn	12−14
Forza Horizon 4	12−14
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14
Watch Dogs: Legion	12−14

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Hitman 3	12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14
Metro Exodus	12−14
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	12−14
Battlefield 5	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	12−14
Far Cry 5	12−14
Far Cry New Dawn	12−14
Forza Horizon 4	12−14
Watch Dogs: Legion	12−14

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14
Hitman 3	12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn	12−14
Metro Exodus	12−14
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	12−14

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	12−14
Battlefield 5	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	12−14
Far Cry 5	12−14
Far Cry New Dawn	12−14
Forza Horizon 4	12−14
Watch Dogs: Legion	12−14

Relative perfomance

Overall Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.

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