Radeon R9 390X2 vs ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking688not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.00no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)GCN (2012−2015)
GPU code nameBroadway-XTno data
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (15 years ago)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 cores16002
Core clock speed700 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology40 nmno data
Power consumption (TDP)120 Wattno data

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

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, GDDR5512
Maximum RAM amount2x1 GBno data
Memory bus width128 Bit5400 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
Shared memory-no data

API and SDK support

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

DirectX11GDDR5

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and Radeon R9 390X2. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is a notebook graphics card while Radeon R9 390X2 is a desktop one.

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
AMD Radeon R9 390X2
Radeon R9 390X2

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