Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire vs RX Vega 56

Place in performance ranking	141	604
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	26.63	no data
Architecture	Vega (2017−2021)	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Vega	Broadway-XT
Market segment	Desktop	Laptop
Release date	14 August 2017 (6 years ago)	7 January 2010 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	no data
Current price	$224 (0.6x MSRP)	$56

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	3584	1600
Core clock speed	1138 MHz	700 MHz
Boost clock speed	1474 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	12,500 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	210 Watt	120 Watt
Texture fill rate	329.5	no data
Floating-point performance	10,566 gflops	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Radeon RX Vega 56 and Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire 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	no data	large
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	no data
Length	267 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	no 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 type	HBM2	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x1 GB
Memory bus width	409.6 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	409.6 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	1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort	no data
HDMI	+	no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 (12_1)	11
Shader Model	6.4	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.0	no data
Vulkan	1.1.125	no data

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.

RX Vega 56 34.34
+605%

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire 4.87

RX Vega 56 outperforms Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire by 605% 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%

RX Vega 56 54586
+318%

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire 13046

RX Vega 56 outperforms Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire by 318% 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	350−400 +560%	53 −560%
Full HD	115 +125%	51 −125%
1440p	70 +678%	9−10 −678%
4K	51 +629%	7−8 −629%

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077

55−60

no data

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	77	no data
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	60−65	no data
Battlefield 5	164	no data
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	70−75	no data
Cyberpunk 2077	55−60	no data
Far Cry 5	115	no data
Far Cry New Dawn	114	no data
Forza Horizon 4	141	no data
Hitman 3	70−75	no data
Horizon Zero Dawn	130−140	no data
Metro Exodus	144	no data
Red Dead Redemption 2	85−90	no data
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	120−130	no data
Watch Dogs: Legion	85−90	no data

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	70	no data
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	60−65	no data
Battlefield 5	153	no data
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	70−75	no data
Cyberpunk 2077	55−60	no data
Far Cry 5	92	no data
Far Cry New Dawn	88	no data
Forza Horizon 4	272	no data
Hitman 3	70−75	no data
Horizon Zero Dawn	130−140	no data
Metro Exodus	106	no data
Red Dead Redemption 2	85−90	no data
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	120−130	no data
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	124	no data
Watch Dogs: Legion	85−90	no data

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	52	no data
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	60−65	no data
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	70−75	no data
Cyberpunk 2077	55−60	no data
Far Cry 5	69	no data
Forza Horizon 4	109	no data
Horizon Zero Dawn	130−140	no data
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	120−130	no data
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	74	no data
Watch Dogs: Legion	85−90	no data

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

85−90

no data

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5	98	no data
Far Cry New Dawn	84	no data

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	44	no data
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	35−40 +640%	5−6 −640%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	50−55	no data
Cyberpunk 2077	24−27	no data
Far Cry 5	74	no data
Forza Horizon 4	88	no data
Hitman 3	40−45	no data
Horizon Zero Dawn	70−75	no data
Metro Exodus	74	no data
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	80−85 +710%	10−11 −710%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	45−50	no data
Watch Dogs: Legion	27−30	no data

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2

55−60

no data

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5	46	no data
Far Cry New Dawn	32	no data
Hitman 3	27−30	no data
Horizon Zero Dawn	40−45	no data
Shadow of the Tomb Raider	31	no data
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	44	no data

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey	27	no data
Assassin's Creed Valhalla	21−24	no data
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare	21−24	no data
Cyberpunk 2077	10−12	no data
Far Cry 5	23	no data
Forza Horizon 4	59	no data
Horizon Zero Dawn	40−45	no data
Metro Exodus	42	no data
Watch Dogs: Legion	16−18	no data