Arc A580 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire with Arc A580, including specs and performance data.

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire
2010
2x1 GB DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5, 120 Watt
4.67

A580 outperforms Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire by a whopping 514% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking688223
Place by popularitynot in top-10067
Power efficiency3.0012.63
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameBroadway-XTDG2-512
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (15 years ago)10 October 2023 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores16003072
Core clock speed700 MHz1700 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2000 MHz
Number of transistorsno data21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rateno data384.0
Floating-point processing powerno data12.29 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data192
Tensor Coresno data384
Ray Tracing Coresno data24
L2 Cacheno data8 MB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeDDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2x1 GB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data512.0 GB/s
Shared memory--
Resizable BAR-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI-+

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX1112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
DLSS-+

Synthetic benchmarks

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


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire 4.67
Arc A580 28.68
+514%

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.

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire 13046
Arc A580 95677
+633%

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:

900p53
−466%
300−350
+466%
Full HD54
−90.7%
103
+90.7%
1440p9−10
−533%
57
+533%
4K5−6
−560%
33
+560%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low

Counter-Strike 2 21−24
−1476%
331
+1476%
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
−630%
73
+630%

Full HD
Medium

Battlefield 5 18−20
−479%
110−120
+479%
Counter-Strike 2 21−24
−1152%
263
+1152%
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
−550%
65
+550%
Escape from Tarkov 18−20
−494%
100−110
+494%
Far Cry 5 14−16
−793%
134
+793%
Fortnite 27−30
−386%
130−140
+386%
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
−386%
107
+386%
Forza Horizon 5 12−14
−846%
123
+846%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 18−20
−516%
110−120
+516%
Valorant 60−65
−213%
180−190
+213%

Full HD
High

Battlefield 5 18−20
−479%
110−120
+479%
Counter-Strike 2 21−24
−514%
129
+514%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 80−85
−233%
270−280
+233%
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
−470%
57
+470%
Dota 2 40−45
−510%
250−260
+510%
Escape from Tarkov 18−20
−494%
100−110
+494%
Far Cry 5 14−16
−713%
122
+713%
Fortnite 27−30
−386%
130−140
+386%
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
−364%
102
+364%
Forza Horizon 5 12−14
−777%
114
+777%
Grand Theft Auto V 16−18
−438%
86
+438%
Metro Exodus 9−10
−978%
97
+978%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 18−20
−516%
110−120
+516%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14−16
−1143%
174
+1143%
Valorant 60−65
−213%
180−190
+213%

Full HD
Ultra

Battlefield 5 18−20
−479%
110−120
+479%
Cyberpunk 2077 10−11
−430%
53
+430%
Dota 2 40−45
−510%
250−260
+510%
Escape from Tarkov 18−20
−494%
100−110
+494%
Far Cry 5 14−16
−660%
114
+660%
Forza Horizon 4 21−24
−295%
87
+295%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 18−20
−516%
110−120
+516%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 14−16
−386%
68
+386%
Valorant 60−65
−213%
180−190
+213%

Full HD
Epic

Fortnite 27−30
−386%
130−140
+386%

1440p
High

Counter-Strike 2 9−10
−789%
80
+789%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 35−40
−469%
200−210
+469%
Grand Theft Auto V 3−4
−1133%
37
+1133%
Metro Exodus 3−4
−1800%
57
+1800%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 35−40
−400%
170−180
+400%
Valorant 50−55
−333%
220−230
+333%

1440p
Ultra

Battlefield 5 4−5
−1875%
75−80
+1875%
Cyberpunk 2077 3−4
−1200%
39
+1200%
Escape from Tarkov 9−10
−656%
65−70
+656%
Far Cry 5 9−10
−867%
87
+867%
Forza Horizon 4 10−12
−582%
75
+582%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 7−8
−686%
55
+686%

1440p
Epic

Fortnite 9−10
−711%
70−75
+711%

4K
High

Grand Theft Auto V 16−18
−138%
38
+138%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2
−6000%
61
+6000%
Valorant 24−27
−633%
170−180
+633%

4K
Ultra

Battlefield 5 2−3
−2200%
45−50
+2200%
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
−2000%
21
+2000%
Dota 2 16−18
−494%
95−100
+494%
Escape from Tarkov 3−4
−1000%
30−35
+1000%
Far Cry 5 4−5
−1075%
47
+1075%
Forza Horizon 4 6−7
−833%
56
+833%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 5−6
−580%
30−35
+580%

4K
Epic

Fortnite 5−6
−580%
30−35
+580%

4K
High

Counter-Strike 2 19
+0%
19
+0%
Metro Exodus 37
+0%
37
+0%

4K
Ultra

Counter-Strike 2 30−35
+0%
30−35
+0%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire and Arc A580 compete in popular games:

  • Arc A580 is 466% faster in 900p
  • Arc A580 is 91% faster in 1080p
  • Arc A580 is 533% faster in 1440p
  • Arc A580 is 560% faster in 4K

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

  • in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with 4K resolution and the High Preset, the Arc A580 is 6000% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • Arc A580 performs better in 58 tests (95%)
  • there's a draw in 3 tests (5%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 4.67 28.68
Recency 7 January 2010 10 October 2023
Chip lithography 40 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 175 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire has 45.8% lower power consumption.

Arc A580, on the other hand, has a 514.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 13 years, and a 566.7% more advanced lithography process.

The Arc A580 is our recommended choice as it beats the Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in performance tests.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is a notebook graphics card while Arc A580 is a desktop one.

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