GeForce RTX 5070 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking640not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency2.76no data
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code nameBroadway-XTGB205
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2010 (14 years ago)2025

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 cores16006400
Core clock speed700 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology40 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt220 Watt
Texture fill rateno data504.0
Floating-point processing powerno data32.26 TFLOPS
ROPsno data64
TMUsno data200
Tensor Coresno data200
Ray Tracing Coresno data50

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 5.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-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, GDDR5GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount2x1 GB12 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz2500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data120.0 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 HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX1112 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-9.1

Pros & cons summary


Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 220 Watt

ATI Mobility HD 5870 Crossfire has 83.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire and GeForce RTX 5070. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire is a notebook card while GeForce RTX 5070 is a desktop one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire
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