UHD Graphics G1 32EU Mobile vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking596not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.60no data
Power efficiency2.13no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Generation 11.0 (2019−2021)
GPU code nameCypressIce Lake GT1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date23 September 2009 (15 years ago)29 May 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores1600256
Core clock speed850 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data900 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology40 nm10 nm+
Power consumption (TDP)188 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate68.0014.40
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPS0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPs328
TMUs8016

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16Ring Bus
Length282 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinno 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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1200 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/sno 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.5
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 23 September 2009 29 May 2019
Chip lithography 40 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 188 Watt 15 Watt

UHD Graphics G1 32EU Mobile has an age advantage of 9 years, a 300% more advanced lithography process, and 1153.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 5870 and UHD Graphics G1 32EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 5870 is a desktop card while UHD Graphics G1 32EU Mobile is a notebook one.


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