GeForce GTX 280M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Place in the ranking	633	982
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.01	1.46
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	Broadway-XT	G92
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)	3 March 2009 (15 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 cores	1600	128
CUDA cores	no data	128
Core clock speed	700 MHz	585 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	754 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	75 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	37.44
Floating-point processing power	no data	0.3745 TFLOPS
Gigaflops	no data	562
ROPs	no data	16
TMUs	no data	64

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 size	large	large
Bus support	no data	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	no data	MXM-IV
SLI options	-	+
MXM Type	no data	MXM 3.0 Type-B

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 type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	2x1 GB	1 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	Up to 950 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	61 GB/s
Shared memory	-	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	no data	HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA
HDMI	-	+
Maximum VGA resolution	no data	2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI	no data	S/PDIF

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management

no data

8.0

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	no data	4.0
OpenGL	no data	2.1
OpenCL	no data	1.1
Vulkan	-	N/A
CUDA	-	+

Synthetic benchmark performance

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. 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.

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire 4.92
+230%

GTX 280M 1.49

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
+95.5%

GTX 280M 6672

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:

900p	53 +231%	16−18 −231%
Full HD	55 +244%	16−18 −244%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

8−9
+100%

4−5

−100%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14 +117%	6−7 −117%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	5−6 +400%	1−2 −400%
Battlefield 5	12−14 +300%	3−4 −300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12 +175%	4−5 −175%
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9 +100%	4−5 −100%
Far Cry 5	10−11 +400%	2−3 −400%
Far Cry New Dawn	14−16 +250%	4−5 −250%
Forza Horizon 4	30−35 +675%	4−5 −675%
Hitman 3	10−12 +83.3%	6−7 −83.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35 +113%	14−16 −113%
Metro Exodus	10−12 +267%	3−4 −267%
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14 +333%	3−4 −333%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	18−20 +125%	8−9 −125%
Watch Dogs: Legion	45−50 +39.4%	30−35 −39.4%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14 +117%	6−7 −117%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	5−6 +400%	1−2 −400%
Battlefield 5	12−14 +300%	3−4 −300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12 +175%	4−5 −175%
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9 +100%	4−5 −100%
Far Cry 5	10−11 +400%	2−3 −400%
Far Cry New Dawn	14−16 +250%	4−5 −250%
Forza Horizon 4	30−35 +675%	4−5 −675%
Hitman 3	10−12 +83.3%	6−7 −83.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35 +113%	14−16 −113%
Metro Exodus	10−12 +267%	3−4 −267%
Red Dead Redemption 2	12−14 +333%	3−4 −333%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	18−20 +125%	8−9 −125%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	18−20 +63.6%	10−12 −63.6%
Watch Dogs: Legion	45−50 +39.4%	30−35 −39.4%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	12−14 +117%	6−7 −117%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	5−6 +400%	1−2 −400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	10−12 +175%	4−5 −175%
Cyberpunk 2077	8−9 +100%	4−5 −100%
Far Cry 5	10−11 +400%	2−3 −400%
Forza Horizon 4	30−35 +675%	4−5 −675%
Hitman 3	10−12 +83.3%	6−7 −83.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	30−35 +113%	14−16 −113%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	18−20 +125%	8−9 −125%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	18−20 +63.6%	10−12 −63.6%
Watch Dogs: Legion	45−50 +39.4%	30−35 −39.4%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

12−14
+333%

3−4

−333%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	9−10 +350%	2−3 −350%
Far Cry New Dawn	7−8 +250%	2−3 −250%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	4−5	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Far Cry 5	6−7 +200%	2−3 −200%
Forza Horizon 4	10−11 +233%	3−4 −233%
Hitman 3	9−10 +28.6%	7−8 −28.6%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−12 +120%	5−6 −120%
Metro Exodus	2−3	0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%
Watch Dogs: Legion	30−35 +343%	7−8 −343%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

9−10
+125%

4−5

−125%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	3−4	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
Hitman 3	1−2	0−1
Horizon Zero Dawn	6−7 +500%	1−2 −500%
Metro Exodus	2−3	0−1
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	1−2	0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	0−1	0−1
Far Cry 5	2−3	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

5−6
+66.7%

3−4

−66.7%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire and GTX 280M compete in popular games:

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire is 231% faster in 900p
ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire is 244% faster in 1080p

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

in Forza Horizon 4, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire is 675% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

Without exception, ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire surpassed GTX 280M in all 49 of our tests.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.92	1.49
Recency	7 January 2010	3 March 2009
Chip lithography	40 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	75 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire has a 230.2% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 10 months, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 280M, on the other hand, has 60% lower power consumption.

The Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce GTX 280M in performance tests.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.