GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER vs Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Place in performance ranking	743	4
Place by popularity	not in top-100	74
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.10	21.28
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	Ada Lovelace
GPU code name	Broadway-XT	AD103-400-A1
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)	31 January 2024 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$999
Current price	$108	$1202 (1.2x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RTX 4080 SUPER has 1835% better value for money than ATI Mobility HD 5870.

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	10240
Core clock speed	700 MHz	2295 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2550 MHz
Number of transistors	1,040 million	45,900 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	320 Watt
Texture fill rate	28.00	816.0
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). 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 x16
Length	no data	310 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	1 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	23000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	716.8 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	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI	no data	+

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model	5.0	6.7
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	no data	8.9

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 2.96

RTX 4080 SUPER 88.26
+2882%

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 5870 by 2882% based on our aggregate 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

RTX 4080 SUPER 141652
+1671%

GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER outperforms Mobility Radeon HD 5870 by 1671% 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 −2803%	900−950 +2803%
Full HD	36 −606%	254 +606%
1440p	6−7 −2883%	179 +2883%
4K	3−4 −3800%	117 +3800%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

6−7
−2733%

170−180

+2733%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 −3817%	235 +3817%
Battlefield 5	5−6 −4780%	240−250 +4780%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8 −1614%	120−130 +1614%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −2733%	170−180 +2733%
Far Cry 5	6−7 −1867%	110−120 +1867%
Far Cry New Dawn	8−9 −2413%	200−210 +2413%
Forza Horizon 4	12−14 −2767%	344 +2767%
Hitman 3	6−7 −1950%	120−130 +1950%
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20 −2547%	503 +2547%
Metro Exodus	0−1	150−160
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8 −1671%	120−130 +1671%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 −5017%	614 +5017%
Watch Dogs: Legion	16−18 −838%	150−160 +838%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 −3433%	212 +3433%
Battlefield 5	5−6 −4780%	240−250 +4780%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8 −1614%	120−130 +1614%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −2733%	170−180 +2733%
Far Cry 5	6−7 −1867%	110−120 +1867%
Far Cry New Dawn	8−9 −2413%	200−210 +2413%
Forza Horizon 4	12−14 −2150%	270−280 +2150%
Hitman 3	6−7 −1950%	120−130 +1950%
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20 −1853%	350−400 +1853%
Metro Exodus	0−1	95
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8 −1671%	120−130 +1671%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 −4633%	568 +4633%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8 −7714%	547 +7714%
Watch Dogs: Legion	16−18 −838%	150−160 +838%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	6−7 −2533%	158 +2533%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8 −1614%	120−130 +1614%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −2733%	170−180 +2733%
Far Cry 5	6−7 −1867%	110−120 +1867%
Forza Horizon 4	12−14 −2583%	322 +2583%
Horizon Zero Dawn	18−20 −2137%	425 +2137%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 −4292%	527 +4292%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8 −3657%	263 +3657%
Watch Dogs: Legion	16−18 −806%	145 +806%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

7−8

−1671%

120−130
+1671%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	5−6 −3220%	160−170 +3220%
Far Cry New Dawn	3−4 −4700%	140−150 +4700%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −6650%	135 +6650%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 −2140%	110−120 +2140%
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 −2600%	27−30 +2600%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −5225%	213 +5225%
Forza Horizon 4	4−5 −7550%	306 +7550%
Hitman 3	8−9 −1513%	120−130 +1513%
Horizon Zero Dawn	8−9 −4213%	345 +4213%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3 −10950%	221 +10950%
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2 −12600%	127 +12600%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

6−7

−2050%

120−130
+2050%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	1−2 −8700%	85−90 +8700%
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3 −3350%	65−70 +3350%
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4 −5533%	169 +5533%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 −4700%	96 +4700%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2 −9800%	99 +9800%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2 −5100%	50−55 +5100%
Far Cry 5	1−2 −4900%	50−55 +4900%
Forza Horizon 4	0−1	305
Horizon Zero Dawn	3−4 −6767%	206 +6767%
Metro Exodus	5−6 −2740%	142 +2740%
Watch Dogs: Legion	0−1	81

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5

−2675%

110−120
+2675%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

9−10
−3022%

281

+3022%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

7−8
−3286%

237

+3286%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla

7−8
−2886%

209

+2886%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla	5−6 −3200%	165 +3200%
Metro Exodus	5−6 −3320%	171 +3320%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 −3208%	397 +3208%

4K
High Preset

Hitman 3	2−3 −4050%	80−85 +4050%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	4−5 −3275%	135 +3275%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	6−7 −3300%	204 +3300%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5870 and RTX 4080 SUPER compete in popular games:

RTX 4080 SUPER is 2803% faster in 900p
RTX 4080 SUPER is 606% faster in 1080p
RTX 4080 SUPER is 2883% faster in 1440p
RTX 4080 SUPER is 3800% faster in 4K

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

in Watch Dogs: Legion, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the RTX 4080 SUPER is 12600% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

Without exception, RTX 4080 SUPER surpassed ATI Mobility HD 5870 in all 53 of our tests.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.96	88.26
Recency	7 January 2010	31 January 2024
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	16 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	320 Watt