Radeon RX 6500 XT vs Mobility HD 5870

Place in performance ranking	739	204
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	1.07	23.06
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)	Navi / RDNA2 (2020−2022)
GPU code name	Broadway-XT	Navi 24
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)	19 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$199
Current price	$108	$274 (1.4x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

RX 6500 XT has 2055% 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	1024
Core clock speed	700 MHz	2610 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	2815 MHz
Number of transistors	1,040 million	5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	107 Watt
Texture fill rate	28.00	180.2
Floating-point performance	1,120.0 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon RX 6500 XT 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 x4
Width	no data	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 6-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	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	8 GB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	18000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	143.9 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, 1x 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	6.6
OpenGL	4.4	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	2.2
Vulkan	N/A	1.3

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

RX 6500 XT 24.62
+735%

RX 6500 XT outperforms Mobility HD 5870 by 735% 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

RX 6500 XT 76445
+856%

RX 6500 XT outperforms Mobility HD 5870 by 856% 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 −706%	250−260 +706%
Full HD	39 −66.7%	65 +66.7%
1440p	3−4 −900%	30 +900%
4K	1−2 −1500%	16 +1500%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

6−7

−1100%

72
+1100%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −1100%	45−50 +1100%
Battlefield 5	6−7 −1233%	80−85 +1233%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14 −442%	65−70 +442%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −800%	54 +800%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −2450%	102 +2450%
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5 −2325%	97 +2325%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −925%	80−85 +925%
Hitman 3	6−7 −1133%	70−75 +1133%
Horizon Zero Dawn	5−6 −1420%	76 +1420%
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7 −567%	40−45 +567%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	9−10 −844%	85 +844%
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3 −3600%	74 +3600%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −1100%	45−50 +1100%
Battlefield 5	6−7 −1233%	80−85 +1233%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	12−14 −442%	65−70 +442%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −467%	34 +467%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −2200%	92 +2200%
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5 −2125%	89 +2125%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −925%	80−85 +925%
Hitman 3	6−7 −1133%	70−75 +1133%
Horizon Zero Dawn	5−6 −1060%	58 +1060%
Metro Exodus	4−5 −1200%	52 +1200%
Red Dead Redemption 2	6−7 −567%	40−45 +567%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	9−10 −622%	65 +622%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8 −1214%	92 +1214%
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3 −2800%	58 +2800%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	4−5 −1100%	45−50 +1100%
Battlefield 5	6−7 −1233%	80−85 +1233%
Cyberpunk 2077	6−7 −400%	30 +400%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −2050%	86 +2050%
Far Cry New Dawn	4−5 −1950%	82 +1950%
Forza Horizon 4	8−9 −925%	80−85 +925%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	7−8 −671%	54 +671%
Watch Dogs: Legion	2−3 −1150%	25 +1150%

1440p
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	5−6 −660%	35−40 +660%
Hitman 3	6−7 −583%	40−45 +583%
Horizon Zero Dawn	10−11 −320%	42 +320%
Metro Exodus	1−2 −1700%	18 +1700%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −1800%	18−20 +1800%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	6−7 −500%	36 +500%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	0−1	27−30
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3 −750%	17 +750%
Far Cry 5	5−6 −1040%	57 +1040%
Forza Horizon 4	1−2 −4900%	50−55 +4900%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	3−4 −900%	30−33 +900%

4K
High Preset

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	2−3 −850%	18−20 +850%
Hitman 3	3−4 −667%	21−24 +667%
Horizon Zero Dawn	7−8 −71.4%	12 +71.4%
Red Dead Redemption 2	1−2 −1200%	12−14 +1200%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	1−2 −1400%	14−16 +1400%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	1−2 −500%	6 +500%
Far Cry 5	4−5 −475%	23 +475%
Far Cry New Dawn	6−7 −233%	20 +233%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5870 and RX 6500 XT compete in popular games:

RX 6500 XT is 706% faster in 900p
RX 6500 XT is 67% faster in 1080p
RX 6500 XT is 900% faster in 1440p
RX 6500 XT is 1500% faster in 4K

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

in Forza Horizon 4, with 1440p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the RX 6500 XT is 4900% faster than the ATI Mobility HD 5870.

All in all, in popular games:

Without exception, RX 6500 XT surpassed ATI Mobility HD 5870 in all 53 of our tests.

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	2.95	24.62
Recency	7 January 2010	19 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	8 GB
Chip lithography	40 nm	7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	50 Watt	107 Watt