HD Graphics 500 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Place in the ranking	775	1145
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	4.10	8.89
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Generation 9.0 (2015−2016)
GPU code name	Broadway	Apollo Lake GT1
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)	1 September 2015 (9 years 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 cores	800	96
Core clock speed	700 MHz	200 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	650 MHz
Number of transistors	1,040 million	189 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	10 Watt
Texture fill rate	28.00	7.800
Floating-point processing power	1.12 TFLOPS	0.1248 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	2
TMUs	40	12

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 size	large	no data
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	Ring Bus
Width	no data	IGP

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	GDDR5	DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	no data
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

Portable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

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

Quick Sync

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.0	6.4
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	3.0
Vulkan	N/A	1.3

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 +288%	8−9 −288%
Full HD	37 +363%	8 −363%
1440p	3−4 +200%	1 −200%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

6−7
+100%

3−4

−100%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 +80%	5−6 −80%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2	0−1
Battlefield 5	5−6 +400%	1−2 −400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8 +133%	3−4 −133%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +100%	3−4 −100%
Far Cry 5	6−7 +500%	1−2 −500%
Far Cry New Dawn	8−9 +700%	1−2 −700%
Forza Horizon 4	16−18 +300%	4−5 −300%
Hitman 3	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24 +83.3%	12−14 −83.3%
Metro Exodus	3−4	0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 +100%	6−7 −100%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +25.8%	30−35 −25.8%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 +80%	5−6 −80%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2	0−1
Battlefield 5	5−6 +400%	1−2 −400%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8 +133%	3−4 −133%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +100%	3−4 −100%
Far Cry 5	6−7 +500%	1−2 −500%
Far Cry New Dawn	8−9 +700%	1−2 −700%
Forza Horizon 4	16−18 +300%	4−5 −300%
Hitman 3	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24 +83.3%	12−14 −83.3%
Metro Exodus	3−4	0−1
Red Dead Redemption 2	7−8	0−1
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 +100%	6−7 −100%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 +40%	10−11 −40%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +25.8%	30−35 −25.8%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	9−10 +80%	5−6 −80%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	7−8 +133%	3−4 −133%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 +100%	3−4 −100%
Far Cry 5	6−7 +500%	1−2 −500%
Forza Horizon 4	16−18 +300%	4−5 −300%
Hitman 3	8−9 +60%	5−6 −60%
Horizon Zero Dawn	21−24 +83.3%	12−14 −83.3%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	12−14 +100%	6−7 −100%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	14−16 +40%	10−11 −40%
Watch Dogs: Legion	35−40 +25.8%	30−35 −25.8%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

7−8

0−1

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	5−6	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5 +300%	1−2 −300%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	3−4	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3	0−1
Cyberpunk 2077	1−2 +0%	1−2 +0%
Far Cry 5	3−4 +200%	1−2 −200%
Hitman 3	8−9 +14.3%	7−8 −14.3%
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8 +75%	4−5 −75%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	2−3	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	18−20 +800%	2−3 −800%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

6−7
+100%

3−4

−100%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	1−2	0−1
Far Cry New Dawn	2−3	0−1

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	2−3 +100%	1−2 −100%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2	0−1
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	1−2	0−1
Far Cry 5	1−2	0−1
Forza Horizon 4	0−1	0−1
Watch Dogs: Legion	1−2	0−1

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

4−5
+100%

2−3

−100%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5870 and HD Graphics 500 compete in popular games:

ATI Mobility HD 5870 is 288% faster in 900p
ATI Mobility HD 5870 is 363% faster in 1080p
ATI Mobility HD 5870 is 200% faster in 1440p

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

in Watch Dogs: Legion, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the ATI Mobility HD 5870 is 800% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

ATI Mobility HD 5870 is ahead in 34 tests (97%)
there's a draw in 1 test (3%)

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.96	0.77
Recency	7 January 2010	1 September 2015
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	10 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5870 has a 284.4% higher aggregate performance score.

HD Graphics 500, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 400% lower power consumption.

The Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is our recommended choice as it beats the HD Graphics 500 in performance tests.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5870 is a notebook card while HD Graphics 500 is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.