GeForce RTX 4090 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Place in the ranking	640	1
Place by popularity	not in top-100	6
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	no data	18.83
Power efficiency	2.82	15.33
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code name	Broadway-XT	AD102
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	7 January 2010 (15 years ago)	20 September 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$1,599

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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	16384
Core clock speed	700 MHz	2235 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2520 MHz
Number of transistors	no data	76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	450 Watt
Texture fill rate	no data	1,290
Floating-point processing power	no data	82.58 TFLOPS
ROPs	no data	176
TMUs	no data	512
Tensor Cores	no data	512
Ray Tracing Cores	no data	128

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	no data
Interface	no data	PCIe 4.0 x16
Length	no data	304 mm
Width	no data	3-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 16-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 type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount	2x1 GB	24 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	1313 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	1.01 TB/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	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	-	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	no data	6.8
OpenGL	no data	4.6
OpenCL	no data	3.0
Vulkan	-	1.3
CUDA	-	8.9

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 4.91

RTX 4090 100.00
+1937%

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

RTX 4090 137609
+955%

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 −1881%	1050−1100 +1881%
Full HD	52 −396%	258 +396%
1440p	9−10 −2100%	198 +2100%
4K	6−7 −2267%	142 +2267%

Cost per frame, $

1080p	no data	6.20
1440p	no data	8.08
4K	no data	11.26

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2	10−12 −1827%	212 +1827%
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11 −2150%	225 +2150%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5	14−16 −680%	110−120 +680%
Counter-Strike 2	10−12 −1855%	215 +1855%
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11 −1010%	111 +1010%
Forza Horizon 4	21−24 −2543%	555 +2543%
Forza Horizon 5	9−10 −3333%	309 +3333%
Metro Exodus	12−14 −1383%	178 +1383%
Red Dead Redemption 2	14−16 −940%	150−160 +940%
Valorant	14−16 −5800%	826 +5800%

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5	14−16 −680%	110−120 +680%
Counter-Strike 2	10−12 −1709%	199 +1709%
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11 −970%	107 +970%
Dota 2	16−18 −1150%	200 +1150%
Far Cry 5	24−27 −521%	149 +521%
Fortnite	27−30 −962%	300−350 +962%
Forza Horizon 4	21−24 −2510%	548 +2510%
Forza Horizon 5	9−10 −3556%	329 +3556%
Grand Theft Auto V	16−18 −988%	174 +988%
Metro Exodus	12−14 −1425%	183 +1425%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	40−45 −412%	210−220 +412%
Red Dead Redemption 2	14−16 −940%	150−160 +940%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	16−18 −988%	170−180 +988%
Valorant	14−16 −5429%	750−800 +5429%
World of Tanks	80−85 −249%	270−280 +249%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	14−16 −680%	110−120 +680%
Counter-Strike 2	10−12 −1582%	185 +1582%
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11 −950%	105 +950%
Dota 2	16−18 −1300%	224 +1300%
Far Cry 5	24−27 −792%	210−220 +792%
Forza Horizon 4	21−24 −2490%	544 +2490%
Forza Horizon 5	9−10 −3000%	279 +3000%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	40−45 −412%	210−220 +412%
Valorant	14−16 −4757%	680 +4757%

1440p
High Preset

Dota 2	4−5 −3950%	162 +3950%
Grand Theft Auto V	5−6 −3120%	161 +3120%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	30−35 −447%	170−180 +447%
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5 −2225%	90−95 +2225%
World of Tanks	35−40 −1374%	500−550 +1374%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	7−8 −1143%	85−90 +1143%
Counter-Strike 2	30−35 −390%	152 +390%
Cyberpunk 2077	5−6 −1440%	77 +1440%
Far Cry 5	10−11 −1500%	160−170 +1500%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −6238%	507 +6238%
Forza Horizon 5	7−8 −3314%	239 +3314%
Metro Exodus	4−5 −3700%	152 +3700%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	8−9 −3175%	262 +3175%
Valorant	12−14 −4300%	572 +4300%

4K
High Preset

Dota 2	16−18 −1000%	187 +1000%
Grand Theft Auto V	16−18 −1069%	187 +1069%
Metro Exodus	0−1	137
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	14−16 −1393%	200−210 +1393%
Red Dead Redemption 2	3−4 −2033%	60−65 +2033%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	16−18 −1069%	187 +1069%

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	4−5 −2175%	90−95 +2175%
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −1900%	40 +1900%
Dota 2	16−18 −1235%	227 +1235%
Far Cry 5	5−6 −2000%	100−110 +2000%
Fortnite	4−5 −2300%	95−100 +2300%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 −7000%	284 +7000%
Forza Horizon 5	3−4 −5267%	161 +5267%
Valorant	4−5 −9000%	364 +9000%

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2

166

+0%

166

+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Counter-Strike 2

150−160

+0%

150−160

+0%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire and RTX 4090 compete in popular games:

RTX 4090 is 1881% faster in 900p
RTX 4090 is 396% faster in 1080p
RTX 4090 is 2100% faster in 1440p
RTX 4090 is 2267% faster in 4K

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

in Valorant, with 4K resolution and the Ultra Preset, the RTX 4090 is 9000% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

RTX 4090 is ahead in 61 test (97%)
there's a draw in 2 tests (3%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	4.91	100.00
Recency	7 January 2010	20 September 2022
Chip lithography	40 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	450 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire has 275% lower power consumption.

RTX 4090, on the other hand, has a 1936.7% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 12 years, and a 700% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce RTX 4090 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 card while GeForce RTX 4090 is a desktop one.

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