Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation 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 ranking691not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.00no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameBroadway-XTAD107
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date7 January 2010 (16 years ago)26 February 2024 (1 year 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 cores16002560
Core clock speed700 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2025 MHz
Number of transistorsno data18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data162.0
Floating-point processing powerno data10.37 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data80
Tensor Coresno data80
Ray Tracing Coresno data20
L1 Cacheno data2.5 MB
L2 Cacheno data12 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 sizelargelarge
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8

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 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.0 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

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-8.9
DLSS-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2010 26 February 2024
Chip lithography 40 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 35 Watt

Nvidia RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 14 years, a 700% more advanced lithography process, and 242.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is a notebook graphics card while RTX 1000 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
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