GeForce MX450 vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Place in performance ranking	739	424
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation	1.05	no data
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name	Broadway-XT	N17S-G5 / GP107-670-A1
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)	1 August 2020 (3 years ago)
Current price	$108	no data

Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed Specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	800	896
Core clock speed	700 MHz	1395 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1575 MHz
Number of transistors	1,040 million	4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	25 Watt (12 - 29 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate	28.00	100.8
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops	no data

Form Factor & Compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce MX450 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size	large	no data
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 4.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR5, GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	10000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	64.03 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 outputs

Supported Technologies

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

Optimus

no data

API Compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.0	6.5
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.2
CUDA	no data	7.5

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance 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 2.95

GeForce MX450 9.64
+227%

GeForce MX450 outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 5870 by 227% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

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.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

ATI Mobility HD 5870 7999

GeForce MX450 22831
+185%

GeForce MX450 outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 5870 by 185% in 3DMark Vantage Performance.

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	31 −223%	100−110 +223%
Full HD	39 +34.5%	29 −34.5%
1440p	4−5 −300%	16 +300%
4K	7−8 −257%	25 +257%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

6−7

−433%

32
+433%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −400%	20−22 +400%
Battlefield 5	6−7 −717%	49 +717%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14 −117%	24−27 +117%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −267%	22 +267%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −750%	34 +750%
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5 −750%	34 +750%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −325%	30−35 +325%
Hitman 3	6−7 −500%	36 +500%
Horizon Zero Dawn	5−6 −400%	25 +400%
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7 −283%	23 +283%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	9−10 −256%	32 +256%
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3 −1150%	25 +1150%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −400%	20−22 +400%
Battlefield 5	6−7 −533%	38 +533%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14 −117%	24−27 +117%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −117%	13 +117%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −625%	29 +625%
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5 −675%	31 +675%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −325%	30−35 +325%
Hitman 3	6−7 −300%	24 +300%
Horizon Zero Dawn	5−6 −180%	14 +180%
Metro Exodus	4−5 −150%	10 +150%
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7 +20%	5 −20%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	9−10 −122%	20 +122%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8 −371%	33 +371%
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3 −800%	18 +800%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −400%	20−22 +400%
Battlefield 5	6−7 −400%	30 +400%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −33.3%	8 +33.3%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −575%	27 +575%
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5 −600%	28 +600%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −325%	30−35 +325%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8 −186%	20 +186%
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3 −250%	7 +250%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 −180%	14−16 +180%
Hitman 3	6−7 −200%	18 +200%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−11 +42.9%	7 −42.9%
Metro Exodus	1−2 −700%	8−9 +700%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −600%	7−8 +600%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −117%	13 +117%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1	9−10
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −400%	5−6 +400%
Far Cry 5	5−6 −300%	20 +300%
Forza Horizon 4	1−2 −1600%	16−18 +1600%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4 −200%	9−10 +200%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −200%	6−7 +200%
Hitman 3	3−4 −200%	9−10 +200%
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8 −14.3%	8−9 +14.3%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −400%	5−6 +400%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2 −400%	5−6 +400%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2 −300%	4−5 +300%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −100%	8−9 +100%
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7 −66.7%	10−11 +66.7%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5870 and GeForce MX450 compete in popular games:

GeForce MX450 is 223% faster than ATI Mobility HD 5870 in 900p
ATI Mobility HD 5870 is 34.5% faster than GeForce MX450 in 1080p
GeForce MX450 is 300% faster than ATI Mobility HD 5870 in 1440p
GeForce MX450 is 257% faster than ATI Mobility HD 5870 in 4K

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

in Horizon Zero Dawn, with 1440p resolution and the High Preset, the ATI Mobility HD 5870 is 42.9% faster than the GeForce MX450.
in Forza Horizon 4, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the GeForce MX450 is 1600% faster than the ATI Mobility HD 5870.

All in all, in popular games:

ATI Mobility HD 5870 is ahead in 2 tests (4%)
GeForce MX450 is ahead in 51 test (96%)

Pros & Cons Summary

Performance score	2.95	9.64
Recency	7 January 2010	1 August 2020
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	25 Watt