GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking639not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.79no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameBroadway-XTGB203
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)2025

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 cores16008192
Core clock speed700 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology40 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rateno data512.0
Floating-point processing powerno data32.77 TFLOPS
ROPsno data96
TMUsno data256
Tensor Coresno data256
Ray Tracing Coresno data64

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 5.0 x16

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, GDDR5GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount2x1 GB16 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data1.01 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 Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX1112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 175 Watt

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

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
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