GeForce GTX 1660 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Aggregate performance score

We've compared Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire with GeForce GTX 1660, including specs and performance data.

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire
2010
2x1 GB DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5, 120 Watt
4.80

GTX 1660 outperforms ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire by a whopping 530% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking639183
Place by popularitynot in top-10052
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data48.68
Power efficiency2.7917.58
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameBroadway-XTTU116
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)14 March 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$219

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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 cores16001408
Core clock speed700 MHz1530 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1785 MHz
Number of transistorsno data6,600 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt120 Watt
Texture fill rateno data157.1
Floating-point processing powerno data5.027 TFLOPS
ROPsno data48
TMUsno data88

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 sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data229 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 8-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 typeDDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x1 GB6 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2001 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data192.1 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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX1112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-1.2.131
CUDA-7.5

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. 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 4.80
GTX 1660 30.26
+530%

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
GTX 1660 71229
+446%

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:

900p53
−466%
300−350
+466%
Full HD54
−51.9%
82
+51.9%
1440p7−8
−600%
49
+600%
4K4−5
−575%
27
+575%

Cost per frame, $

1080pno data2.67
1440pno data4.47
4Kno data8.11

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
−788%
71
+788%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 12−14
−400%
65−70
+400%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 5−6
−1080%
59
+1080%
Battlefield 5 12−14
−725%
95−100
+725%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−12
−564%
73
+564%
Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
−625%
58
+625%
Far Cry 5 10−11
−580%
65−70
+580%
Far Cry New Dawn 14−16
−450%
75−80
+450%
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
−432%
160−170
+432%
Hitman 3 10−12
−527%
69
+527%
Horizon Zero Dawn 30−35
−856%
306
+856%
Metro Exodus 10−12
−1209%
144
+1209%
Red Dead Redemption 2 12−14
−762%
112
+762%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 18−20
−483%
100−110
+483%
Watch Dogs: Legion 45−50
−393%
227
+393%

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 12−14
−846%
123
+846%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 5−6
−740%
42
+740%
Battlefield 5 12−14
−725%
95−100
+725%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−12
−509%
67
+509%
Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
−488%
47
+488%
Far Cry 5 10−11
−580%
65−70
+580%
Far Cry New Dawn 14−16
−450%
75−80
+450%
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
−432%
160−170
+432%
Hitman 3 10−12
−509%
67
+509%
Horizon Zero Dawn 30−35
−797%
287
+797%
Metro Exodus 10−12
−927%
113
+927%
Red Dead Redemption 2 12−14
−508%
79
+508%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 18−20
−511%
110
+511%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 18−20
−256%
60−65
+256%
Watch Dogs: Legion 45−50
−365%
214
+365%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 12−14
−400%
65−70
+400%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 5−6
−640%
37
+640%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 10−12
−345%
49
+345%
Cyberpunk 2077 8−9
−400%
40
+400%
Far Cry 5 10−11
−580%
65−70
+580%
Forza Horizon 4 30−35
−216%
98
+216%
Hitman 3 10−12
−436%
59
+436%
Horizon Zero Dawn 30−35
−191%
93
+191%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 18−20
−428%
95
+428%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 18−20
−217%
57
+217%
Watch Dogs: Legion 45−50
+58.6%
29
−58.6%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 12−14
−523%
81
+523%

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 9−10
−533%
55−60
+533%
Far Cry New Dawn 7−8
−557%
45−50
+557%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 4−5
−700%
30−35
+700%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
−750%
34
+750%
Cyberpunk 2077 2−3
−1100%
24
+1100%
Far Cry 5 6−7
−483%
35−40
+483%
Forza Horizon 4 10−11
−1640%
170−180
+1640%
Hitman 3 9−10
−333%
39
+333%
Horizon Zero Dawn 10−12
−509%
67
+509%
Metro Exodus 2−3
−2850%
59
+2850%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 4−5
−900%
40−45
+900%
Watch Dogs: Legion 30−35
−503%
187
+503%

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 9−10
−489%
53
+489%

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 3−4
−900%
30−33
+900%
Far Cry New Dawn 3−4
−700%
24−27
+700%
Hitman 3 1−2
−2000%
21
+2000%
Horizon Zero Dawn 6−7
−950%
63
+950%
Metro Exodus 2−3
−2100%
44
+2100%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 1−2
−3400%
35
+3400%

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 3−4
−533%
18−20
+533%
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 2−3
−650%
15
+650%
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2−3
−750%
17
+750%
Cyberpunk 2077 0−1 10
Far Cry 5 2−3
−750%
16−18
+750%
Forza Horizon 4 4−5
−1150%
50
+1150%
Watch Dogs: Legion 1−2
−1100%
12
+1100%

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 5−6
−420%
26
+420%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Valhalla 27
+0%
27
+0%
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 67
+0%
67
+0%

4K
Ultra Preset

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 36
+0%
36
+0%

This is how ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire and GTX 1660 compete in popular games:

  • GTX 1660 is 466% faster in 900p
  • GTX 1660 is 52% faster in 1080p
  • GTX 1660 is 600% faster in 1440p
  • GTX 1660 is 575% faster in 4K

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

  • in Watch Dogs: Legion, with 1080p resolution and the Ultra Preset, the ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire is 59% faster.
  • in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, with 4K resolution and the High Preset, the GTX 1660 is 3400% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire is ahead in 1 test (1%)
  • GTX 1660 is ahead in 67 tests (94%)
  • there's a draw in 3 tests (4%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 4.80 30.26
Recency 7 January 2010 14 March 2019
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm

GTX 1660 has a 530.4% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 9 years, and a 233.3% more advanced lithography process.

The GeForce GTX 1660 is our recommended choice as it beats the Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire in performance tests.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is a notebook card while GeForce GTX 1660 is a desktop one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
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