ATI started Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire sales 7 January 2010. This is a Terascale 2 architecture notebook card based on 40 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 2x1 GB of DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5 memory clocked at 1000 GHz are supplied.

Power consumption is at 120 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking	640
Place by popularity	not in top-100
Power efficiency	2.79	of 100.00 (Radeon 890M)
Architecture	Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Broadway-XT
Market segment	Laptop
Release date	7 January 2010 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1600	of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed	700 MHz	of 2670 MHz (Arc B580)
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	of 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)	120 Watt	of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop size

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VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	2x1 GB	of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width	128 Bit	of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory	-

API compatibility

APIs supported by Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark 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 Crossfire 4.87

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.

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire 13046

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p	53
Full HD	52

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11
Elden Ring	12−14

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5	14−16
Counter-Strike 2	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11
Forza Horizon 4	20−22
Metro Exodus	10−12
Red Dead Redemption 2	14−16
Valorant	10−12

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5	14−16
Counter-Strike 2	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11
Dota 2	16−18
Elden Ring	12−14
Far Cry 5	24−27
Fortnite	27−30
Forza Horizon 4	20−22
Grand Theft Auto V	16−18
Metro Exodus	10−12
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	40−45
Red Dead Redemption 2	14−16
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	16−18
Valorant	10−12
World of Tanks	80−85

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	14−16
Counter-Strike 2	12−14
Cyberpunk 2077	10−11
Dota 2	16−18
Far Cry 5	24−27
Forza Horizon 4	20−22
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	40−45
Valorant	10−12

1440p
High Preset

Dota 2	4−5
Elden Ring	5−6
Grand Theft Auto V	4−5
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	30−35
Red Dead Redemption 2	4−5
World of Tanks	35−40

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	7−8
Counter-Strike 2	9−10
Cyberpunk 2077	4−5
Far Cry 5	10−11
Forza Horizon 4	7−8
Metro Exodus	3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	6−7
Valorant	12−14

4K
High Preset

Dota 2	16−18
Elden Ring	2−3
Grand Theft Auto V	16−18
Metro Exodus	0−1
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS	14−16
Red Dead Redemption 2	3−4
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	16−18

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5	4−5
Cyberpunk 2077	2−3
Dota 2	16−18
Far Cry 5	5−6
Fortnite	4−5
Forza Horizon 4	3−4
Valorant	4−5

Closest competitors

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.

GeForce GTX 470M 104.31

GeForce GTX 675M 102.87

GeForce GTX 460M SLI 102.05

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire 100

GeForce GTX 570M 99.59

GeForce 945A 98.97

Iris Pro Graphics 580 98.36

NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is GeForce GTX 570M, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our ranking.

GeForce GTX570M

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